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.

Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent. Al Torreggiani By Stuart A. Thompson Stuart Thompson is a technology journalist ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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Her case was, of course, dismissed. By Mark Walker In February, a sheriff’s deputy was working on traffic enforcement in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., when he stopped a 36-year-old woman named Kathleen ...

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