The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego experience—including the minifigs.

Did our AI summary help? Some students in New York City are having a slightly embarrassing moment after schools banned phones. According to a report by Gothamist, the smartphone ban revealed something ...

For years, parents and teachers have blamed technology for the loss of skills like handwriting and the ability to read entire books among kids. Now, New York's statewide smartphone ban this fall has ...

Although New York’s statewide smartphone ban has been largely successful in helping students focus in class and socialize more at lunch, it has also exposed an unexpected skill gap among students: ...

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...

Time got away from them! New York City teachers have found that scores of teenagers can’t read traditional clocks after a cellphone ban in schools statewide — because students figured the skill would ...

Some New York City teachers say it’s high time for a refresher on old-fashioned clocks. Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones ...

DEAR HELOISE: I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and know many young people who are able to text on their phones with ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even though the world and society continue to evolve, we can't help but circle back to old trends and classic decor every now and again. Why?

For all of the new technology in cars, the lane-keeping and adaptive cruise, the autonomous driving modes, and the safety tech that's widely available in most makes and models, it's easy to forget the ...

Atomic clocks will only see a loss of 1 second in accuracy over a period of 10 million years. They are used in multiple ways, including the GPS in your car. Now researchers have found a way to bypass ...

“Spring ahead; fall back.” That’s the mnemonic we all use to remember how much pain is coming when the time changes. It’s fall, the less painful one, and since the time on everyone’s smartphone ...