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.

If you've donated to a good cause lately, you may have found more solicitation requests being mailed to your home. This is especially true after the holidays, when charitable organizations ramp up ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast,” now streaming on Netflix. It starts, as so many things in Irish life do, with a wake. Lisa McGee had wanted to ...

Netflix brings a rollercoaster mystery comedy in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast season 1, Set across Ireland, the eight-episode series follows three longtime 30-something friends, Robyn, Dara, and ...

Lisa McGee's latest Netflix series follows three lifelong friends who go digging into the suspicious death of an estranged childhood classmate.

The missing fourth member of this quartet is Greta (Natasha O’Keeffe), who the other three lost touch with after one fateful night 20 years in the past. In the present, when Greta abruptly dies after ...

Just over three years after Derry Girls ended, creator Lisa McGee has another hit on her hands in the form of How to Get to Heaven From Belfast, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud mystery and an odyssey ...

SAN DIEGO — From potholes and graffiti to broken sidewalks and missed trash pickup, San Diegans have had a direct digital line to City Hall for nearly a decade. The City of San Diego’s “Get It Done” ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

Palantir’s Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg said in a letter to Pentagon leaders, a move that locks in ...