MIT Technology Review

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect ...

Flowtica Verso notetaker puts an e-paper screen on the back of your phone

See your notes as they're recorded ...
Business Insider

Parents are spending up to $19,000 on summer camps that ban their kids' phones

Emma Bobson spends four to six hours a day on her phone. At 13 years old, the middle schooler from Long Island, New York scrolls through TikTok searching shopping hauls, FaceTimes her friends to ...
Chicago Reader

The original pay-as-you-go phones

In 1901, the Chicago Telephone Company ran a newspaper ad promoting a technology it said would make its service available to “every resident of Chicago”: home pay phones. Known as nickel-in-the-slot ...
CNET

I’ve Used Samsung and Google’s New Foldable Phones. Here’s What Apple Must Get Right

Commentary: The Galaxy Z Fold 8 series and Pixel 11 Pro Fold take different approaches to shape-shifting, both of which Apple can learn from. I remember waiting in line outside the Samsung store in ...
CNBC

For young Americans, the workplace is the new phoneless frontier. 'It allows us to hyper focus on the task at hand,' says employer

When Ronin Segrest, 17, began working at Ocean Oasis Water Park and Beach Club in Wildwood, New Jersey, in the summer of 2025, he'd long been looking forward to becoming a lifeguard. He just didn't ...
Ars Technica

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

While we wait (possibly in vain) for Gemini 3.5 Pro to launch, Google is releasing a different model in the 3.5 branch. The company has announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, an AI model designed to ...
notebookcheck

GrapheneOS confirms 2027 launch on Motorola phones, starting with flagships

Motorola and the GrapheneOS project first announced their collaboration at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026, and now, release timeline has been updated. On Mastodon, the team confirmed last week that ...
Mercury News

Bay Area schools are locking up students’ phones. One district is betting there’s a better way

Many students across the Bay Area are putting smartphones away in backpacks and specialized locked pouches as part of new, phone-free school day policies known as “bell-to-bell” bans. But in one South ...
Android Authority

5 Android phones you should buy instead of the Google Pixel 11

Google’s new lineup of flagship phones is officially here, and the base Pixel 11 is the most affordable of the bunch. It’s more expensive than last year’s model, starting at $899, but it’s now the ...
XDA Developers

Windows 11 may finally let you turn off and restart your PC using your phone

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...
Android Authority

Want Google’s smartest Gemini features? You’ll need one of these phones

Google has officially listed seven phones that support Gemini Nano 4, the model behind some of its newest on-device AI features. The supported devices are the Pixel 11 series and Samsung’s latest ...