A legal fight is brewing over ownership of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character. In a lawsuit filed in February, Leslie Klinger, a Holmes scholar, argues that the entirety… Read more »

Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-trouncing supercomputer, has come farther than we’d thought:  Eric Brown, the researcher who works with Watson, has had to wipe the contents of the Urban Dictionary from its… Read more »

Thanks to new technology, books can now be published before the events they describe even happen. Writing at the Los Angeles Times’ Jacket Copy, Carolyn Kellogg describes how the eBook… Read more »