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.

Student focused on web development and programming. I write about debugging, coding challenges, and improving skills. Your function looks right. The logic checks out. You've traced it three times on ...

Ms. Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and led its global task force on A.I. and education. I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given ...

I hope this article finds you well. Did that make you cringe, ever so slightly? In the decades since the very first email was sent in 1971, the technology has become the quiet infrastructure of ...

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 ...

Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and ...

You've got your first taste of writing your own functions in the previous exercises. You've learned how to add parameters to your own function definitions, return a value or multiple values with ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

ChatGPT can help with many things—creating images, looking up information, role-playing, solving math problems, programming and much more. But at the heart of everything it does are so-called “large ...

A growing number of special education teachers say they use artificial intelligence platforms to draft all or part of students’ individualized education programs, even as many districts lack policies ...

The delayed release of the BLS report has led to fearmongering about the economy's ability to function. Leila Fadel, host of NPR's Up First, said on Friday that "businesses and policymakers are flying ...