Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by Fabian Mosele shows A.I.-generated animation of Italian Brain Rot characters created by visual artist ...

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Research suggests that high use of social media and AI chat tools may affect your attention and memory. But there is something you can do about it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Brain rot, in general, seems to be in vogue these days. Allow ...

It's not unusual for the words of influencers to gain popularity. But the influential philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born more than 200 years ago -- and now a term he's credited with introducing, ...

The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

Do you suffer from brain rot? Is scrolling on your phone for hours at a time the only thing that brings you joy? Well, it might not make you feel better, but it may make you feel less alone to know ...

Brain rot describes overconsuming low quality social media content. Casper Grathwohl of Oxford University Languages discusses how brain rot was selected. MARTÍNEZ: OK, I know I have a little, but that ...

In the first half of 2025, she racked up over 55 million views on TikTok and 4 million likes, mostly from tweens glued to their cellphones. Not bad for an AI-generated cartoon ballerina with a ...