They're all over Twitter: Strings of tweets about politics or Russian plots or long thoughts. Maybe they're a new way to tell stories, but they say just as much about us as they do about the platform.
Scientists want to make computers into better storytellers, but to do that they have to teach the machines a tricky element: suspense. Now researchers believe they've taken a big step forward.
Why do we tell stories? Evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson says: "Storytelling is far more fundamentally human than even human beings realize." Stories...
