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.

Nasa and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently launched “Your Name In Landsat", a website that allows anyone to generate their name or short words through landscape imagery from Nasa's ...

Artemis II has launched, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission to circle the moon and back to Earth, the first step toward planned lunar landings and eventual habitation on the lunar surface.

For as long as wedding vows have existed, there have been those who’ve struggled to write them. The practice asks people to condense their love, appreciation, and commitment to their partner into a ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...

Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek "likes" on social media platforms like TikTok. In a question-and-answer session with clergy from ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

AUSTIN – Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock announced that a record number of students have applied for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) since applications opened on Wednesday. The ...

Solid-state EV batteries, deemed the “holy grail” of battery tech, are moving from the lab to reality, even in the US. Factorial launches solid-state battery program in the US Factorial Energy has ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...