Microsoft's student tech-for-good competition, the Imagine Cup, has crowned this year's winner: Tawi, a team from Kenya that applied machine learning tools to helping kids with auditory processing dis...
[photo1]Medical progress and technological advancement are amazing things. With the assistance of donor reproductive material, as well as the help of a surrogate or gestational carrier, we have overco...
The zoo or aquarium is supposed to be a place for children to learn more about the natural world. But over the last few years, the creatures that reside in these sanctuaries have inspired the names of...
Social media platforms are struggling to navigate a patchwork of US state laws that require them to verify users' ages and give parents more control over their children's accounts.States including Uta...
According to the nonprofit agency the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 200 mass shootings in the United States in 2023, and it's only May. Guns have been the leading cause of death for U.S. ...
Meta is monetizing kids as much as they are the rest of us. But this week the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has alleged that Meta violated a 2020 order to protect kids on the site as well as, runn...
The Federal Trade Commission alleges that Meta has "repeatedly violated" privacy rules, and proposes to tighten the agency's 2020 order against the company, completely barring it from monetizing data ...
Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday. On top of "continuing to give app developers access to users' private in...
I was a fully grown adult before I learned that identifying emotions is the first step to dealing with them. Now I keep a feelings wheel handy at all times, just in case anyone needs help distinguishi...
Netflix's Sweet Tooth is Bambi meets The Last of Us. It inserts adorable animal characters into an increasingly harrowing world, where the skin of civilization is being pulled back by the nails of abn...
An eye-opening analysis of common, over-the-counter sleep aids finds they contain wildly variable amounts of melatonin, with some packing up to 347 percent of the amount on the label.
By third grade (circa the early 1980s), I was regularly sleeping over at friends' houses. Birthday slumber parties were common, as well as random Friday nights watching VHS tapes in dark dens until ou...
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday altered its authorizations for mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, retiring the original monovalent versions entirely, streamlining immunizations for the unvaccin...
A rowdy group of young "mallow-munchers," "bully-crushers," and "bedtime breakers" must battle a fun-hating foe intent on putting an end to their untamed revels in Bea Wolf, a new graphic novel by car...
Bodegraven is the type of well-heeled Dutch town where young moms push their prams past smart restaurants, people say hello to each other as they pass in the street, and packs of children roam around ...
[photo1]Will BedingfieldLast week, at an early showing of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the lights dimmed and the Nintendo logo glowed out over the audience. From the back, a toddler whose parents were...
Following last month's NBC News investigation into Pinterest that exposed how pedophiles had been using the service to curate image boards of young girls, the company on Tuesday announced further safe...
[photo1]Morgan MeakerBodegraven is the type of well-heeled Dutch town where young moms push their prams past smart restaurants, people say hello to each other as they pass in the street and packs of c...
The first two episodes of Succession's final season made it seem things might be the same, as if the HBO series really might have been comfortable going out by leaving Logan Roy and his children to la...