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.

Free File is not Direct File, which the IRS has discontinued for the 2026 tax season. This tax season, according to the IRS, eight private-sector partners are offering guided tax software products ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...

Oscar winner Javier Bardem and two-time nominee Kate Hudson are set to star in Hello & Paris, a film adaptation loosely inspired by Deborah McKinlay’s novel That Part Was True. Elizabeth Chomko (What ...

MANILA, Philippines — Just months after it was introduced by the Department of Education (DepEd), the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (Aral) program has been shown to significantly improve ...

Out of all the surprises happening in Overwatch next season, a collaboration with Sanrio may be the most unexpected — but also the most welcome, particularly for fans of cute and cuddly things. Hello ...

The company behind popular Aussie business Hello Darling has entered administration, with $1.4 million owed to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The gift, homewares and clothing business has five ...

Rachel is a freelancer based in Echo Park, Los Angeles and has been writing and producing content for nearly two decades on subjects ranging from tech to fashion, health and lifestyle to entertainment ...

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

Editor's note: Alysa Liu won Olympic gold in women's figure skating. MILAN — Early in her short program performance, Alysa Liu didn’t quite land her double Axel, and she made a face because she ...