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.

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s Copilot AI holds only 1.1% of the web AI market share, declining from 1.5% over the past year. ChatGPT dominates with 64.5% market share while Google’s Gemini has ...

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...

Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

GitHub issue reports for both user and contributor facing bugs of App Lab are welcome. Setup npm package with yarn. Install Wails with go install github.com/wailsapp ...

Artificial intelligence is changing how people shop, with consumers using AI tools, like Google's Gemini and Open AI's Chat GPT, to research items and find the best deals. Artificial intelligence is ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Your favorite latte at the local coffee shop could soon cost $5, $5.10 or $5.25—depending on how you pay. A settlement between Visa, Mastercard and U.S. merchants announced this week could usher in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Qualcomm, a company built on selling chips to companies like Samsung and Apple in volumes of ...