Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

POP is a new term (as of January 2026) which means using AI/LLM prompts to execute programming tasks. Some simple examples: You may think of a POP task as a function that expects some input arguments ...

Now in its 113th year, Operation Santa, run by the United States Postal Service, allows children and families to send letters to Santa Claus. Those letters are posted online—personal details ...

Julie Sweet, the chief executive of consulting giant Accenture ACN0.98%increase; green up pointing triangle, recently delivered some tough news: Accenture is “exiting” employees who aren’t getting the ...

It's ironic how plumbing was probably the last job anyone expected to be touched by artificial intelligence. But when technology makes a physical trade faster, cheaper, and easier to troubleshoot, ...

North Korean hackers have adopted the 'EtherHiding' technique that leverages smart contracts to host and deliver malware in social engineering campaigns that steal cryptocurrency. Google Threat ...

GRAND FORKS — For Jo Martin and her granddaughters, Khloey and Brinley, Wednesday's food insecurity event in Grand Forks was an opportunity to participate in the ministry of their church, Sharon ...