Toddlers and tablets: Way of the future?
Just 10 days out of the womb, Alex's mother, Beth Lehman-Brooks of Seattle, propped him up in front of an iPad for what she hoped was a good…
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‘Google Keep’ keeps your phone and web notes synced
Watch out Evernote, OneNote and all you other to-do lists apps out there, Google's coming after you with its new Google Keep service, ABC News reports.
Pheed: The social network that’s winning over teens from Facebook and Twitter
As Facebook slowly rolls out its updated News Feed design, featuring content-sorted feeds dedicated to photos and music, a popular social networking alternative has emerged, ABC News reports.
Microsoft making more Surface products
Despite tepid reviews of Microsoft's new Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet last week, the company says it has seen solid demand since it went on sale Saturday in…
Senators reach agreement on immigration reform
A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, ABC News reports.
No-book library? BiblioTech is coming
A book-less library. It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio's Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country's…
Watch: Cell phone runs on one AA battery
Sure, CES 2013 is full of groundbreaking smartphone technology - the newest screens, processors and connectivity for our powerful phones - but sometimes all those fancy features can…
Obama credits education with boosting ‘mixed kid’ and ‘little black girl’ to White House
President Obama today credited an affordable college education with helping a "mixed kid from Hawaii" and a "little black girl from the South Side of Chicago" make history…
Student critically wounded on first day of school, teacher subdues gunman
A 17-year-old student is in critical condition after he was shot on the first day of school today in a Baltimore suburb and a quick thinking teacher subdued…
Don’t believe the outrage: First grader rightfully suspended
According to ABC News, a first grader in Aurora, Colo., was suspended for singing "I'm sexy and I know it" during school. , quoting a lyric from a…
Gruesome assignment spells termination for D.C. teacher
A math assignment that required students to figure out how many Africans, Americans, and Indians to bake in ovens for Thanksgiving was a recipe for termination for a…
Homophobia starts in elementary school; teachers do little
Clare Davidson-Sherman, the adopted daughter of Karen Davidson-Fisher, has "several mommies"--her biological one, her adoptive mother's former partner who has joint custody, and now Davidson-Fisher's legal wife, ABC…
Hispanic students have highest high school dropout rates
Utah's State Office of Education is concerned about the growing number of dropouts in the state's high schools, the largest percentage of which are Hispanic students, according to…
Teachers fired for reporting abuse, lawsuit claims
Two teachers, including a former teacher of the year, are suing the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami claiming they were fired for reporting suspected sex abuse involving the principal…
College students sound off on social networking likes and dislikes
Google is talking to several top online game developers about creating a broader social networking site that would offer social games and could compete with Facebook—and in interviews…