Data collected under the Death in Custody Reporting Act has some serious problems. Here’s how we fixed some of them.

Here's an interesting fact: companies that rely on data to make their decisions are more likely to achieve better results.

For decades, software developers have been slipping jokes into their work. One of the most enduring, clever, and geekily satisfying inside jokes has been hiding in plain sight: the recursive acronym.

Certainly! Here's the revised description without the links: --- I sat down with Sam Thompson again, and this time we tried something completely different. We used a random word generator to come up ...

Those who have been following our Wordle coverage know that it’s easily one of the simplest yet hardest games to beat. Based on guessing a random five-letter word daily, it’s seriously fun. While we ...

A ruling on a dispute over shortening “groceries” to “grosh.” Sarah writes: My husband shortens words. Groceries become “grosh,” uterus is “utes,” the Spanish word for sandals (chanclas) is “chanks.” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Over the years, there have been plenty of people trying to ...

A new TikTok trend is shedding light on the power of words—fake ones, at least. In the “random words” trend, Gen Z TikTokers are pranking each other by saying made-up slang to the camera in groups, ...

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

If you can work out how to connect four seemingly random words, you're one of the very few people who can. In fact, only 1% of the British population are believed to be able to solve it. You'll really ...

Generate random words and sentences with ease in Python. Be on the lookout for bugfixes and speed improvements in 2.3 ...