A dead phone battery is usually just an inconvenience. When it's a phone you've also lost, it starts to feel like a genuine disaster, because the app you'd normally use to find it requires the phone ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

Laptops are practical because you can take them with you. However, laptops have a relatively small screen. If you work on a mobile computer, it quickly becomes annoying to constantly switch programs.

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

Does money lead to happiness? Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. Researchers from a coalition of West Coast universities were ...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...

New research suggests that Epstein-Barr virus may actively provoke the immune system in people with multiple sclerosis. Scientists found large buildups of virus-targeting immune cells in the nervous ...

Costco's Auto Program should be as popular as its $5 rotisserie chicken — but I've learned not too many of its members actually know it exists. I discovered the program this past summer during a ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...