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.

The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board. By Alexandra Alter Last February, the writer Coral Hart launched an ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Free AI tools Goose and Qwen3-coder may replace a pricey Claude Code plan. Setup is straightforward but requires a powerful local machine. Early tests show promise, though issues remain with accuracy ...

Impact is where the swing either delivers power or loses it. In this lesson, we break down a real simple concept that makes rotating through the ball feel natural and automatic. By focusing on one ...

Anthropic is working on implementing a fix to bring Claude Code back online. Anthropic is working on implementing a fix to bring Claude Code back online. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

Gus Kenworthy says ‘enough is enough’ over ICE in US ICE agents are in Milan with US vice-president JD Vance Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs ...

How to craft a narrative that matters by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss Let’s say you’re a leader with an urgent organizational problem—anything from a broken culture to a product that no longer ...

The College Football Playoff will have a 12-team playoff bracket for the 2026-27 season, the third year of that size after expanding from the four-team format. Here's what you need to know about the ...