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.

California's DROP program is now active, giving Californians the ability to stop data brokers from selling their personal information. DROP, which stands for Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, is a ...

A product launch can feel like a finish line, but in most tech organizations, it’s really the start of the next job: refining the solution to ensure it has staying power. Once customers start clicking ...

Yet another multimillion-dollar data center is underway in Central Texas as the Lone Star State continually ramps up its prowess in the artificial intelligence and data cloud sectors. The city of ...

WALTERBORO — A large new data center campus soon could be coming to this Colleton County community, and some community members and conservation groups worry that it could drive up energy costs and ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Friday it was working to update its schedule of economic data releases affected by the recently ended government ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Labor Department's statistical agency should prioritize the production of November employment and inflation reports when the government reopens to ensure ...

ST. LOUIS — A local real estate investor has plans to turn the shuttered Armory entertainment complex in Midtown into a data center, in what could be the first project to test the city’s new rules on ...