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People who interact with chatbots for emotional support or other personal reasons are likelier to report symptoms of depression or anxiety, a new study finds. The researchers from Mass General Brigham ...

PCWorld reports that Spotify offers a hidden “Basic” tier launched in mid-2024 for $10.99/month, providing music-only streaming without audiobooks or lossless audio. This plan requires existing ...

American Airlines quietly ended the ability for customers traveling on basic economy tickets to earn miles and status. Basic economy tickets are airlines' most restrictive and already do not allow for ...

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 ...

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Park (Joyride), Leighton Meester (I Love LA), and Taylor John Smith (Warfare) have wrapped lead roles in Basic, an indie comedy marking the feature debut of writer-director Chelsea ...

We examine how AI is changing the future of work — and how, in many ways, that future is already here. Every tech company you can think of is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon and touting new ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Social media use is widespread and continues to grow. The most popular social media site, Facebook, is used by 68% of Americans and the average American spends over two hours a day on social media.