While they can't replace human advisers, AI-based tools can take some of the guesswork out of financial tasks — from budgeting to filing taxes and investing. Personal finances can be tricky to manage, ...

Being a cat parent can bring so much joy and fulfillment, but trying to save money as a cat owner can sometimes feel overwhelming. The costs of veterinary care, food, litter, toys, carriers, cat trees ...

Google must pay $425 million to the plaintiffs of a class action lawsuit that accused the company of collecting users' data even after they've turned off a tracking feature, a federal jury has decided ...

The Trump administration is laying out plans to stop collecting certain information from states about students with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Education wants to end data collection on ...

The West Virginia Department of Tourism says it’s looking for ways to reduce costs and increase readership for Goldenseal, the state’s traditional life magazine that’s been published for 50 years.

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.

One of the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms like ChatGPT is their near-instantaneous ability to search the internet and synthesize massive swaths of information quickly and ...

As Ohio builds more power-sucking data centers, state legislators are looking for new ways to conserve electricity use and lessen the demand on the power grid. State Rep. Roy Klopfenstein, R-Haviland, ...

Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of defense against hackers—even if your password is stolen or guessed, another checkpoint will block account access. I regularly recommend enabling 2FA as ...

As the demand for computing power surges, driven by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services, energy consumption from data centers is skyrocketing. This escalating ...

Anyone who has used AI for more than a passing prompt knows intuitively what researchers are now documenting in full detail: The more we lean on generative AI to think for us, the less capable our own ...

When I first got my hands on a Chinese electric mini-excavator, I thought it would be a fun little machine for digging a few holes and moving some dirt around. What I didn’t expect was just how useful ...