Microsoft Visual Studio Pro was $500, but Now You Can Get It for Less Than $50

Visual Studio Pro is Microsoft’s main IDE, but it’s usually locked behind a monthly subscription. The reason I finally made ...

LA County mother, stepfather who tortured and killed 16-year-old daughter sentenced to life in prison

A Los Angeles County mother and stepfather who were convicted in the torture and death of their 16-year-old daughter in 2021 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

10 New Tools for Visual Studio 2026 from Mads Kristensen

In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, ...
Cosmopolitan

Should You Use AI to Write Your Wedding Vows?

For as long as wedding vows have existed, there have been those who’ve struggled to write them. The practice asks people to condense their love, appreciation, and commitment to their partner into a ...
USA Today

What's it like to write a bestselling book? We followed Lucy Score for a year to find out

Readers of Lucy Score’s new romance novel, “Mistakes Were Made,” will marvel at the cover and sprayed edges. They'll anticipate the love story that awaits them on the pages. But all the excitement in ...
Yahoo

New Starbucks Rewards program changes start Tuesday. Here's what to know

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Starbucks logo is seen on the street in Krakow, Poland on February 11, 2026. (Courtesy of Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty ...
HR Dive

Leaders say AI skills now are as fundamental as the ability to write

Data and artificial intelligence literacy skills are no longer considered specialized, a new report concluded, and instead have “crossed a critical threshold” as something widely expected in the ...
Hyperallergic

School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program

An external view of the Flatiron Gallery at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York (image courtesy the School of Visual Arts) After 14 years, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan ...
The Washington Post

An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human.

The Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying ...
Neowin

Microsoft introduces Copilot Tasks, a new way to get things done using AI

AI agents are going mainstream this year. OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code are two popular coding agents that have been gaining traction across the software engineering industry over the ...
Women's Wear Daily

Gap Inc. Remakes Its Loyalty Program

Gap Inc. has launched Encore, a new membership program with an enriched package of benefits and savings, and ways for shoppers to engage deeper with the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta ...
Hyperallergic

Ireland Makes Basic Income Program for Artists Permanent

National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) members Carla Rogers and Peter Power celebrated Ireland's new basic income scheme with Irish Culture Department Minister Patrick O'Donovan (second from right) and ...