The face of sarcasm ($KAPPA) is the ultimate memecoin homage to the iconic “Kappa” emote—the undisputed face of internet irony and Twitch trolling. Born on ...

If that function sounds familiar, it should. In pre-emoji times, abbreviations like “jk” or “/s” served roughly the same purpose. In the pre-internet era, you could use phrases like “I’m just kidding” ...

Sarcasm and jazz have something surprising in common: You know them when you hear them. Sarcasm is mostly understood through tone of voice, which is used to portray the opposite of the literal words.

Different parts of the brain must work together to understand sarcasm, new research suggests. The prefrontal cortex – a small area in the front of the brain – seems to play the biggest role and may ...

Is comedian Don Rickles one of the world's smartest people? Science suggests he just might be. (The Associated Press) Well, what a surprise, scientists have discovered that sarcastic people are the ...

Thanks to modern technology, a bunch of creative minds, and the rise of a smartphone-dominated world, we can now communicate with tiny little pictures on our phones that manage to convey whole worlds ...

Artificial intelligence and algorithms are capable of stunning feats: Computers can sweep Jeopardy! boards, calculate π to a staggering degree, and tweet every word in the English language without ...

Sarcasm may be called the lowest form of wit, but it still exercises psychologists, linguists and computer scientists hoping to build automatic irony detectors IT WAS a classic case of mistaken ...