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.

With a powerful enough PC, you don't need a cloud-hosted service to work with LLMs — you can download and run them locally on your own hardware. The hard part is standing up the infrastructure ...

After one too many rants to my best friend about my stubby, nail-glue–covered fingers (I’m a press-on nail fiend), she finally told me to book a dip powder manicure—the nail polish upgrade basically ...