Publisher cancels horror novel over AI use
Hachette Book Group cancelled publication of upcoming horror novel Shy Girl over allegations that author Mia Ballard used artificial intelligence to…
Year: 2026
Amazon to attempt another smartphone
Amazon’s Fire Phone famously crashed and burned after its 2014 debut, but according to Reuters, the online shopping and media giant plans to make another…
Make your grill a cutting-edge experience
Do you want to up your summer grilling game? Establish yourself as the barbecue champion of your neighborhood? Good news — there’s almost certainly a…
Meta exec provides a teachable moment
OpenClaw’s developer Peter Steinberger describes his agentic AI as “AI that actually does stuff,” a promise that has drawn legions of fans in the tech…
Collectors drawn to the quest, history of objects
Most people have heard of stamp or coin collecting, but the world of collectibles runs far deeper and stranger than that. Victorian figural napkin rings,…
What will happen to your collection?
You’ve spent years — maybe decades — building a collection you love. You know why that particular piece of Depression glass is rare, why one vesta case…
Mental Health Month What to do with the seriously mentally ill?
In August 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who had come to the United States to escape the war, was stabbed to death on a Charlotte,…
Who do you call? The emergency contact question nobody talks about
Every doctor’s office asks it. Every hospital intake form includes it. Who is your emergency contact? For many older adults, that line sits blank for a…
Speed Training game shown to reduce dementia risk
Brain training research shows a 25 percent reduction in dementia risk for one specific type of game. It used a specific exercise called Double Decision,…
What those ads on your tablet aren’t telling you
If you have spent any time playing games on a phone or tablet lately, you have almost certainly seen two types of advertising aimed squarely at older…