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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta's platforms deliberately addict and harm children. Meta's CEO is expected to answer ...

Android users are poised to anywhere between $100 to $135 million as part of two new Google settlements. Android users accused Google of programming its Android operating system to collect their ...

A team of Apple researchers set out to understand what real users expect from AI agents, and how they’d rather interact with them. Here’s what they found. In the study, titled Mapping the Design Space ...

Codex has been downloaded over a million times, users are up 60% in a week It'll stay free to all users, but Free/Go plans may face limits Deep Research gets new viewer and better controls It's barely ...

OpenAI has approved an artificial intelligence app, which was built by Spanish digital insurer Tuio and is powered by WaniWani’s AI distribution infrastructure, that allows Tuio to distribute its home ...

An ongoing conversation — both within and outside of the tech community — has been about just how and when OpenAI, which is currently valued at $500 billion, will make money. Well, there’s one ...

Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to ...

Tinder is looking to AI to revitalize its dating app, which has now reported nine straight quarters of paying subscriber declines, as of the third quarter this year. The dating app maker, Match Group, ...

Amazon will issue $1.5 billion in refunds as the result of an FTC settlement. Will you be getting one? Credit: Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Amazon agreed to a whopping $2.5 ...