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.

Most people use dating apps to find love. Tiffany Chau used one to hunt for a summer internship. This fall, the 20-year-old junior at California College of the Arts tailored her Hinge profile to ...

With so much to do heading into the busy holiday season, is anyone getting enough sleep? Most sleep experts advise that adults get seven to nine hours of sleep per night for good health and emotional ...

Before you swipe left or swipe right, a high-tech wingman could be affecting your search for love. A growing portion of the dating pool is using AI to beef up their bios and profile pics and even ...

The checks will be “mailed over a multiple-week period” from September to November to qualifying individuals Getty More than 8 million people in the U.S. will be mailed an inflation refund check of up ...

I crafted the most ridiculous TNT in Minecraft history—turning mobs into cows, becoming a wide bushy boy, and even duplicating diamonds with a potato. From farming with explosions to using Chunk Eater ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...