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.

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. “The first sign that it was AI was that it didn’t look great,” ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – The City and County of Honolulu has launched a new online tool to help residents prepare for sewer rate changes. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the “Use Less, Pay Less” campaign features a ...

President Donald Trump called Portland a war zone last week, and now state Republicans are trying to deliver one—by sharing fake photos of a fake riot. The official social media accounts of the Oregon ...

Google had introduced a while ago which is trending nowadays on Instagram feeds. The new AI-powered image editing tool is called Nano Banana and powered through its Gemini app. This tool helps users ...

ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — A woman has serious injuries after a dog attack, but now her neighbor, who stepped in to save her by illegally using a gun, is facing a charge. According to the Roanoke ...

Dan is an assistant managing editor at Raw Story based in Colorado, producing and editing breaking political news. Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, ...

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...

CHICAGO — In the run-up to former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment, there was no question who would step up to represent him. Friend and former colleague Patrick Fitzgerald, who served as U.S.

Your odds of being bitten by a snake obviously increase when you serve as the director of a reptile zoo, and one man in Kentucky had a brush with death after being bitten by an animal in his care. He ...

The Trump administration will continue using emergency authority to block coal retirements, Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed this week. (Bloomberg) “This administration’s policy is going to be ...

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims. Generative AI has enabled the production of child ...