This free app is like Shazam for bird calls

It’s spring, and nature is pulling me away from my computer as I write this. The sun is shining, the world is warming up, and the birds are chirping away.

And that got me thinking: What if a smartphone app could translate all those chirps for us?

No, I’m not talking about an app that will translate bird sounds to human speech (although that would be neat). Rather, the app we’re about to go over tells you what specific species is making any bird sound around

‘Read the room, girl’: Running influencer Kate Mackz faces backlash over her White House interview

Wake up, the running influencers are fighting again. 

In the hot seat this week is popular running influencer Kate Mackz, who faces heavy backlash over the latest guest on her running interview series: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Mackz, who has nearly 800,000 followers on TikTok, has previously featured notable figures such as political commentator

Half of Airbnb users in the U.S. are now interacting with its AI customer service agent

Half of Airbnb users in the U.S. are now using the company’s AI-powered customer service agent, CEO Brian Chesky said Thursday during an earnings call. The tool was quietly rolled out last month and is expected to be available to all U.S. users in the coming weeks.

Chesky said the AI assistant has already led to a 15% drop in users needing to contact live support agents. While the techn

What your emoji use says about your personality

Are you guilty of overusing the monkey covering its eyes emoji? Do you find it impossible to send a text without tacking on a laughing-crying face?

Much like choosing between a full stop or an ‘x’ at the end of a message, emojis have become their own form of language—complete with unspoken rules and hidden meanings (we all know exactly what we’re implying with the eyes emoji or the eggplant).

But beyond adding subtext or flirtatious nuance, your go-to emojis m

Apple stocks down as CEO Tim Cook warns of $900 million in tariff-related costs for Q2

Apple shares fell nearly 3% in premarket trade on Friday after the iPhone maker trimmed its share buyback program and CEO Tim Cook warned of additional tariff-related costs of about $900 million this quarter amid a raging Sino-U.S. trade war.

The Cuperti

SAG-AFTRA’s new influencer committee aims to strengthen support for digital creators

SAG-AFTRA is expanding its reach into the influencer economy.

In late April, the union’s board unanimously voted to establish a new influencer committee, appointing New York-based lifestyle influencer Patrick Janelle as chair.

SAG-AFTRA’s involvement with influencers isn’t new. In 2021, the union introduced an influencer agreement and waiver to cover branded content wor

Why TikTok got hit with a $600 million fine from EU privacy watchdogs

European Union privacy watchdogs fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video-sharing app’s data transfers to C

How ‘Star Wars’ can save STEM education

In American culture, importance and attention are often misaligned. This disconnect is one of the greatest challenges we in the STEM world face.

Too often, society’s most essential stories are drowned out by the drama of the moment—pushed aside by the next headline or fleeting scroll. Today’s media environment is a relentless battle for attention, which is why, when a cultural moment aligns with science, we must seize it. Elevate it. Share it.

Right now, we have just such

How Facebook data can help track human migration patterns

Whether it’s political leaders like Donald Trump expressing concern about immigration, or individuals forced to leave their homes due to conflict, the movement of people across borders—and where they end up—is a highly debated global issue.

It’s also an area plagued by a lack of high-quality data. But a new solution may be on the horizon, offering near-re

Of course we deserve to know the true cost of tariffs

For one exhilarating moment, it sounded like Amazon was about to make a gutsy pro-consumer move. On Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported that the company would “soon show how much Trump’s tariffs are adding to the price of each product” by specifying it “right next to the product’s total listed price.” That act of transparency would have been reminiscent of past prece


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