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 phrase “cash is king” may not have the same ring as it used to, now that more than 40% of Americans, per the Pew Research Center, regularly go a week or more without paying for anything using ...

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.

Microsoft is reportedly moving away from Copilot in all Windows components, as recently became public. Now, in the current Windows Insider preview, Copilot is called “Writing Tools”, as observant ...

Celebrities like Matthew Perry, Chrissy Teigen and others have been open about using ketamine infusion therapy to help treat mental health conditions. According to the United States Drug Enforcement ...

In addition to lower base pricing, Microsoft is promoting new autoscaling and power management features in AVD. For example, unused instances will now shut down automatically. This addresses one of ...

And when it doesn’t by Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright Many executives and investors assume that it’s possible to use customer-data capabilities to gain an unbeatable competitive edge. The more ...