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.

On the occasion of the Semiquincentennial (250 Years) of the United States of America, Write Out Loud will join the celebration, bringing three programs to the San Diego region that highlight the ...

Looking for workarounds in required writing courses is nothing new for college students. Those trying to avoid writing essays and reports could always buy them. It was expensive and risky: Would the ...

Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better. A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong ...

A select panel of L.A. County judges now have access to an artificial intelligence tool that can help them summarize motions and draft rulings in civil court. The tool, Learned Hand, is already in use ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In a ...

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 ...

The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board. By Alexandra Alter Last February, the writer Coral Hart launched an ...

When the Trump administration targeted billions of dollars in federal welfare funds recently over fraud concerns, it singled out five Democratic-run states. An examination by The Wall Street Journal ...

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 ...