Since its release in 2006, Twitter has become a household name, so much so that the Oxford Dictionary added "tweet" as a word in 2013. But that doesn't stop the company formerly known as Twitter's new ...

Johanna Drucker is Breslauer professor and distinguished professor emerita in information studies at UCLA. She is the author of “Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the ...

Elon Musk has been pushing the X brand since before the turn of the century, starting with online banking site X.com in 1999. Musk has been open about his love of the letter X for a long time. Many ...

The letter X carries the weight of history in its crosshairs. With origins in the Greek and Phoenician alphabets, it’s come to signify the most-known religious figure in history, displays of affection ...

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The letter “x” often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing. Illustration by Meilan Solly Even though “x” is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, ...

Warning: Spoilers for Uncanny X-Men #16!The X-Men's "X" logo doesn't mean what everyone thought, as its actual meaning is essential to early mutant history. Several mutant teams have adopted the ...

“In these situations, X believes that, while difficult, it’s in the public interest to understand what’s happening in real time,” X's safety team posted Monday. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer The ...

It’s now used to indicate sex and gender beyond the binary. But X has always been powerful. By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich As a bookish child, I loved most of all an anthology of stories that sat high on ...

For starters, the swastika X—or cross—has come to symbolize the very essence of evil. And the letter, as signified by the skull and crossbones, portrays death by poison. Yet it also represents virtue ...