In the two decades preceding the birth of independent India, Pankajam was intensely engaged in building a home and raising ...

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don’t talk back in a child’s imagination — some talk through built-in AI chatbots. Sometimes that’s a ...

Many mobile apps claiming to support early reading skills in children fail to deliver actual educational benefit, with positive app store reviews seemingly driven by esthetics and functionality, a new ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in ...

A new AI-powered app that allows users to create interactive avatars of their deceased relatives, co-founded by Disney Channel alum Calum Worthy, is sparking backlash on social media, with many users ...

When Ashley Millwood’s phone kept buzzing, she knew there was a problem. Her two teenage daughters were spending the afternoon with a group of friends, including one whose mother was supposed to have ...

Photoshop and other professional image creation programs are often expensive and complicated. Fortunately, there are many alternatives that cost nothing and are easy to use, making them great for ...

For parents raising children in the digital age, the internet can be a constant source of danger. Every day, children run the risk of being exposed to violent, pornographic, and harmful content or ...

An ad for a zombie-killing game shows a skeleton driving a tank and firing its cannon. Another promoting a diet app features several scantily-clad women. A third employs a sexually suggestive scene to ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For New York teacher Michael Flanagan, the pandemic was a crash course in new technology - rushing out laptops to stay-at-home students and shifting ...