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AI is finding its voice — and using it to take your weeknight pizza order.Restaurants, including Domino’s and Wingstop, have used voice AI assistants for years to chat with customers on the phone and take their orders. Lately, though, they’ve been finessing those assistants by adding region-specific accents, adjusting their…

It’s a tough world right now for young people trying to save money. Grocery prices and rents keep rising, and even fairly financially stable Gen Zers can feel hopeless and worse off than they truly are, thanks to “money dysmorphia.”Many are “just trying to keep their head above water,” Kate…

As a teacher, I’ve heard a lot of lies from my students. I can tell when they are clearly lying, such as telling me they’re not listening to music when I can hear the music coming from their headphones. While I really didn’t like it when my students put me…

Gen Zers have had their finances walloped by a pandemic, historic inflation, soaring interest rates, and widespread layoffs in recent years — and could face more pain if President Donald Trump’s trade war drives up prices and drags the economy into recession.Yet most young people will be fine in the…

I calculated my recommended protein intake, as someone who works out and wants to build muscle. I needed a minimum of 53 grams of protein a day, but closer to 114 grams if I really wanted to make gains.But hitting that isn’t so easy. On a typical day, my morning…

My grandfather was born and spent his young adult life under Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship, which ended in 1974.He saw firsthand how financial insecurity could be used as a weapon — loans denied, costs inflated, and livelihoods threatened based on arbitrary labels of unreliability, like involvement in union organizing.For him,…