Family & Parenting News
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Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable for Dangerous Online Content?
Section 230 has been protecting Big Tech from liability over harmful content for years, but this legal shield is finally showing cracks – which could mean better online safety for kids.
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Instagram Makes Teens Think Twice Before Sharing Nude Photos
Naughty photos can lead to lasting consequences. Instagram helps teens avoid mistakes with warnings, blurs, and support when things go wrong.
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Brush, Trim & Vacuum: Get this All-in-One Grooming Kit for 55% Off
Don't miss this 55% off deal. This eufy pet groomer and vacuum combo easily tackles shedding, mats, and trims. Take the first step to a cleaner home now.
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See the Whole Nursery with Two Cameras in One
This isn't your average baby monitor. With AI Motion tracking and two cameras, it can follow your baby as they move, changing the game for parents.
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OldNews.com Launches: A Treasure Trove of Historical Newspapers
On OldNews.com, you can dive into the past with historical newspapers around the world from the 1800s and 1900s. Research events and explore your roots.
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TAL Education Group's Kids Tablets Deliver Custom Learning Experiences
Explore how TAL Education Group's Mobby Kid's Learning Pad and Xueersi Smart Learning tablet use AI and technology to provide customized learning experiences.
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How to Track Santa's Journey Around the World
Santa's coming! Discover fun ways for kids to get updates on his preparations and track his journey on Christmas Eve with your phone, Alexa, and Google devices.
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Logitech Zone Learn Headset Keeps Kids Focused on Learning
Logitech’s Zone Learn headset is designed for kids, with a comfortable fit and durable construction, and is tuned so that they can hear voices clearly.
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Turn Old Family Photos into Lifelike Animations
MyHeritage's new Deep Nostalgia photo-enhancement tool can animate faces in your oldest family photos, bringing the past to life.
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Techlicious Top Picks of CES 2021 Awards
Our team of tech industry veterans scoured this year's virtual exhibit halls and picked our absolute favorite products for the Techlicious Top Picks of CES 2021 Awards.
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Amazon Makes Alexa Smarter and Upgrades Echo Devices
Amazon's updated Echo smart speakers and displays and improved Alexa offer big improvements on the tech you need to run your smart home.
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MyHeritage Turns Old Black & White Photos into Stunning Color Images
MyHeritage's automatic photo enhancing and colorization tools turn your fuzzy old black-and-white photos into crisp color images with just a couple of clicks.
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Techlicious Top Picks of Toy Fair 2020
At the 2020 New York Toy Fair, we found 10 incredibly innovative playthings that S.T.E.A.M up young brains with concepts in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
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Techlicious Top Picks of CES 2020 Awards
Every year at CES, we see a dizzying array of new products. Our team of tech industry veterans selected just 15 our Techlicious Top Picks of CES 2020 Award.
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20 Awesome Things We Saw at the IFA Tech Show
We walked the show floor at IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics show, and found 20 products that we'd love to own.
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Apple's New Rules Ban Tracking and Advertising to Kids
While Apple made a big show of updating privacy protections for adults, for parents these new protections for kids may be even more important.
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10 Top Tech Toys from Toy Fair 2019
We found 10 innovative and fun toys that spark curiosity, teach coding, construction and creative design, and can even make you an internet star.
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New Study Will Tell Us How Screen Time Affects Kids' Brains
A study of 11,000 children over the next decade will answer questions on the long-term impact of screen time on our kids, but there are already some interesting findings.
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Never Forget Your Keys Again: Tile Pro and Tile Mate
Not only can you find your keys with your smartphone, but you'll also be reminded if you leave home without them.
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T-Mobile Lets You Control Kids' Screen Time at Home & on the Go
Manage exactly what your kids can do online, whether they're on their computer at home or out using their smartphone.
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Relay is a Screenless Phone that Keeps Tabs on Your Kids
There are no worries about screen addiction with this screen-free LTE device that lets you track and talk to your kids.
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Powered Up Lego Batmobile Zooms Around Under Smartphone Control
Lego lets kids program their new line of Powered Up smart toys, combining movement, speed, sound, and duration commands to create custom stunts.
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Limit YouTube Kids Videos to Content Curated by People
The YouTube Kids app has had problems with inappropriate content slipping by their algorithms, but now it offers better tools to restrict what your child watches.
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Echo Dot Kids Edition Is a Smart Speaker Just for Kids
With FreeTime Unlimited and new kid-friendly Alexa skills, Alexa could become your child's virtual best friend.
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Easily Build Your Own Alexa Apps
Personalize your Alexa-enabled device with your own apps, including interactive stories, flashcards, and apps to help the sitter care for your child or pet.
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Amazon Makes It Easier Track Your Kids' Screen Time
FreeTime Unlimited now lets you monitor your kids' screen time on Amazon Fire tablets and Android devices from your smartphone or computer.
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Free ADT Go Personal Safety App Provides Safety Away From Home
The Free ADT Go app will make you and your family feel safe. Our video shows how features like a panic SOS button and monitoring kids driving habits work.
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Google Assistant Adds 50 New Kid-Friendly Activities
Your kids can now talk to Mickey Mouse and more with new games and stories in Google Assistant.
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Amazon Teen Accounts Help You Teach Your Kids How to Shop
New linked accounts will let teens independently shop online, while letting you keep an eye on their purchases.
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Netflix Interactive Stories Let You Take Director's Seat
What is it like to sit in the director's chair and be in control of how a story unfolds? Netflix’s new interactive stories put you in control.
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Techlicious 2017 Best of Toy Fair Awards
Want to know what the best new toys will be this year? We scoured the floors at Toy Fair and found ten worthy of our coveted Best of Toy Fair awards.
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Lego Boost Teaches Coding, Brings Legos to Life
The latest from Lego lets kids build just about anything and then teach it to move and play.
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Amazon's Digital Day Sale Offers TV, Movies and More
If you're looking forward to filling up your new tablet or phone with content, this sale is for you.
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Turn Your Child's Drawing into a Stuffed Animal
Crayola's Imaginables are custom-designed stuffed animals based on your children's artwork.
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Study: Kids Think Parents Should Have Device Rules, Too
Parents aren't the only ones who think device use should be restricted.
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Techlicious 2016 Best of Toy Fair Awards
There were a ton of really great toys on display at Toy Fair this year. Here are our must-haves for kids of all ages.
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Amazon's 7-inch Tablets Now 20 Percent Off
Amazon Fire tablets, known for providing a lot of bang for the buck, just became even more affordable with a 20 percent price drop.
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Control Your Family's Screen Time at Home & on the Go
Screen helps parents manage all screen time, from phones to laptops to TVs, with just the click of a button.
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Hands-On with the Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-A-Pillar
Fisher-Price's Code-A-Pillar aims to teach preschoolers the foundational skills of coding, through problem solving and sequencing.
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The Robotic, Self-installing Car Seat from 4moms Makes Safety Simple
4mom's new self-installing car seat takes the guesswork out of the process that leaves three out of every four seats improperly installed.
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Triby Converts Your Kitchen Into a Family Communication Hub
The Triby connected speaker makes it easy to call or send messages to the kids at home — and with its magnetic back, it sticks right on the fridge door.
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Circle With Disney Controls Screen Time on Every Device
Control your kids' screen time with Circle with Disney, a $100 device that gives you control over every app and device your kids are using.
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Sonicare Toothbrush App Proves too Addicting For Kids
The Philips Sonicare for Kids app was recently updated to disallow further play with Sparkly following nightly brushings, letting kids get to sleep.
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Just When You Thought the Ashley Madison Hack Couldn't Get Worse
Newly discovered security flaws allow hacking group to expose passwords for more than 11 million Ashley Madison users.
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DISH Network Launches Detailed Parental Guides
The DISH Anywhere site now contains Parental Guides with age ratings and content warnings (language, violence, consumerism, etc.) and analysis.
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Report: Apps & Websites Failing to Adequately Protect Kids' Privacy
A study by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network reveals privacy concerns in approximately 41% of the websites and apps most popular with children.
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LeapFrog Epic Android Tablet for Kids Grows Up as They Do
The LeapFrog Epic is a 7-inch Android-based tablet with safe browsing, parental controls and a removable safety bumper for younger kids.
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Are You Ready for Your Child to Have a Smartphone?
A recent survey Techlicious conducted with Sprint reveals that 23% of parents feel comfortable giving their kids a smartphone between the ages of 9-11. Find out how to get their phone child-ready.
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No-Commission Stock Trading App Robinhood Comes to Android
No-commission brokerage firm Robinhood offers Android owners unlimited free stock trades on U.S. markets with no minimum balance requirement.
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New Research Reveals the Value of a Stolen Identity
A new look into the black market for stolen identities reveals just how much a stolen identity is worth to a criminal.
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New Quiz Tells You How Many Times Your Personal Data Has Been Stolen
A new quiz in The New York Times reveals how many times hackers have compromised your personally identifiable data (SSN, DOB, etc.)
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Hackers Threaten to Reveal the Identites of 37M Adulterers
Hackers have stolen 37 million customer records from adultery personals site Ashley Madison and are threatening to reveal the customers' identities.
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Maker Camp for Kids Starts this Week
Maker Camp, which encourages kids to learn and create through the process of making fun projects, launches this week.
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Amazon Announces Massive 1-day-only 'Prime Day' Sale
On Wednesday July 15, Amazon will hold its first ever Prime Day celebration, offering more one-day-only deals than Black Friday.
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Amazon Improves its 5-Star Review Ratings
Amazon is making changes to its customer review algorithm that adds weight to verified purchasers, helpful reviews and the most recent reviews.
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LeapFrog Introduces Nick-licensed Card Games, New Platinum Tablet
LeapFrog Imagicards teach kids math and language skills by way of scannable trading cards featuring PAW Patrol and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Kids Learn How to Code Games Free at Microsoft Stores this Summer
The free Microsoft YouthSpark Summer Camps this summer will teach kids aged 8 to 16 valuable coding and game design skills.
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TempTraq: A Disposable Bluetooth Thermometer Patch
The TempTraq patch offers 24-hour continuous temperature monitoring of sick children, reducing the need to disturb their sleep.
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Study: Technology Use is Reducing Our Attention Spans
A Microsoft survey shows that heavy technology use is harming our ability to focus, multitask and remember information.
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PBS Kids' Kart Kingdom: An Online World for Kids
Kart Kingdom allows kids aged 6 to 9 the ability to explore, cooperate with others and learn in a safe, controlled and free online game environment.
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YouTube Kids Under Fire From Parents
The YouTube Kids app mixes advertising with programming drawing ire from parent groups.
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Facebook Scrapbook Lets You Easily Share Photos of Your Kids
Facebook Scrapbook allows you to easily create dedicated albums for your kids on your own profile using the site's photo tagging feature.
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Video Shows Scary Distracted Driving Crashes by Teens
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released a study and video showing the real-life dangers of distracted driving by teens.
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Chevrolet Unveils 'Teen Driver' Parental Control System
Chevrolet will debut its new Teen Driver safety system, which monitors teen driving habits and provides over-speed chimes, on the 2016 Malibu.
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Google Play App Store Gets Human Reviewers, ESRB Ratings
The Google Play App Store is now employing human reviewers to review content and applying ESRB ratings to its apps and games.
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'Hello Barbie' Doll Raising Privacy Concerns with Parents
The new Hello Barbie doll from Mattel is drawing criticism from parents over the fact that it transmits conversations with kids over the web.
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'YouTube Kids' App to Launch Feb 23
Google will launch a stand-alone YouTube Kids app with age-appropriate, curated videos for kids and useful parental controls.
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Remote Control Robo-Fish Eliminates Toilet Bowl Funerals For Good
The Hexbug Aquabot Remote Control Angelfish swims around your home aquarium just like a real pet fish — minus the maintenance hassle and feedings.
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Hasbro's New Snackin' Sara Doll Demands Food, Poops Food
The new Snackin Sara doll from Hasbro requests kids feed her, chews her food (included), and alerts kids when she needs a diaper change.
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'Star Wars Bladebuilders' Lets Kids Design Their Own Lightsabers
The Hasbro Bladebuilders Jedi Master Lightsaber set lets kids design and create their own futuristic weapon straight out of the Star Wars universe.
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Techlicious 2015 Best of Toy Fair Awards
Want to know what the best new toys will be this year? We scoured the floors at Toy Fair and found eight worthy of our coveted Best of Toy Fair awards.
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Nickelodeon to Launch a Paid Streaming Service in February
Nickelodeon parent company Viacom announced Thursday that the TV network for kids will launch an over-the-top streaming video service.
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Illinois Cyberbullying Law Forces Parents to Give Up Kids' Passwords
A new Illinois cyberbullying law compels parents to surrender the social networking passwords of their children at the request of school officials.
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AMBER Alerts Come to Facebook
Facebook has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to being issuing geographically targeted AMBER alerts to members.
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Obama Calls for New Laws on Data Hacking, Student Privacy
The Personal Data Notification and Protection Act would create a national 30-day standard for alerting victims of data breaches.
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Kolibree Bluetooth Toothbrush Coaches Proper Brushing Habits
Kolibree uses a 9-axis motion sensor to know its position in your mouth, sending feedback about your brushing to an app on your smartphone.
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Skechers' Game Kicks: Sneakers with an Electronic Game Built In
The new, colorful Skechers Game Kicks sneakers for boys and girls come with a Simon-like flashing light memory game built in.
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Triby: A Wi-Fi-Based Phone and Bluetooth Speaker for Families
Invoxia has unveiled the Triby, a fridge-mounted Wi-Fi phone for families without home phone service that doubles as a Bluetooth speaker.
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Brio Safe Outlet Only Goes Live When a Plug is Detected
The Brio Safe Outlet, on demo at CES 2015, smartly detects the difference between plugs and foreign objects to keep little kids safe around the home.
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Poll: 45% of Americans Affected by Payment Card Breaches
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals that nearly half of Americans have had their credit card data stolen as a result of cybercrime.
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This Holiday's Hottest Toys are Selling at Huge Markups on Amazon
The hottest gifts of the holiday can all be found on Amazon thanks to retail arbitrage resellers, but often at massive markups.
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How to Seek Refunds for Unauthorized Android In-App Purchases
Google has agreed to refund $19 million to victims of unauthorized Android in-app purchases made by minors through a simple-to-use Google Play form.
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Amazon Now Lets You "Make an Offer"
The new Make an Offer feature lets you haggle and negotiate the price for collectible items such as signed baseballs, rare coins and famous paintings.
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Colleges Using Big Data to Track At-Risk Students
Colleges across the country are collecting student data to help pick majors, schedule courses and predict those at highest risk for dropping out.
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Made with Code Lets Kids Program the White House Christmas Lights
Made with Code and the National Parks Service is letting kids program their own holiday tree light display and have it featured at the White House.
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales Finally Going Digital
Girl Scout troop members can now create their own personalized cookie sales pages to take online orders and process credit cards.
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Amazon Kindle Software Update Brings Family Sharing
Kindle e-reader owners can now create a 'Family Library' network of linked household Amazon accounts to share books between family members.
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Pawscout Pet Finder Uses Radar-like Tech to Find Missing Pets
The Pawscout Pet Finder is a dogtag-replacement device that pings your phone any time a missing pet is located with 200 feet of any Pawscout user.
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Pew: 40% of Adult Internet Users Report Being Victims of Harassment Online
The problem of online abuse and cyberbullying now affects 2 out of every 5 adults, with the bulk of attacks aimed at those aged 18 to 29.
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ComputerCOP: A Keylogger Masquerading as Internet Security Software
ComputerCOP suggests it will help keep your kids safe online, but the EFF warns it does exactly the opposite (and puts your data at risk, too).
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Online Dating Leads to More Breakups than Traditional Relationships
Research reveals that online daters are more likely to break up, less likely to get married and more likely to get divorced if they do.
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Code Studio: Free Tools to Teach Kids Programming Basics
Code.org's new Code Studio program, designed for integration into classrooms, teaches kids coding as they create games and solve fun logic puzzles.
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First-in-the-Nation Law Gives Digital Account Inheritance to Heirs
Delaware's new digital inheritance law allows executors of estates access to the email and social media accounts of the deceased.
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Google to Offer Services to Kids Under 13
Google's new kid-focused offerings, which require a parent to set up an account, will offer heightened privacy and tools to monitor kids' behavior.
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School Buses Going High-Tech with WiFi, GPS and Cameras
A number of school bus companies now offer GPS and RFID tracking for their young riders and companion apps for concerned parents.
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How Tech Savvy Are You? Take the Quiz
A new digital literacy quiz from Ofcom lets you see how your confidence with cutting edge tech stacks up to people of different ages.
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'The Counting Kingdom' Game Makes Learning Math Fun
The Counting Kingdom is a new tower defense game for PC and Mac that perfectly blends learning about math and fun for kids 6 to 8.
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Comcast: Free Service, Debt Forgiveness for Low Income Families
Comcast's Internet Essentials program offers low-income families debt forgiveness, 6 months of free Internet service, and a $9.99 monthly rate.
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Google's Own Email Scan Helps Nab a Child Predator
A Houston man has been arrested on child porn charges after Google analyzed images being sent from his private Gmail account.
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Bing Adds School Ratings to Search Results
Microsoft's Bing search engine now provides a wealth of data and ratings for public and private schools directly in its Snapshot search results.