1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1046+ words) How do you get teenagers to put their phones away for hours at a time? That is the question many schools are trying to solve as bans on cellphones sweep the U.S. " more than 30 states so far now restrict their use…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (905+ words) Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key question will be…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (485+ words) Officials at TikTok say they are looking into why many users have been unable to send the word "Epstein" in direct messages, an issue that garnered widespread attention on social media Monday and prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to announce…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (975+ words) What will happen to Florida's ban on TikTok now that there's a U.S.-China deal? Nobody is saying, but it may be too soon for students and government workers to expect they'll be able to open their "FYP" on the social…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1785+ words) More than one billion users visit TikTok every month, and since its launch in 2016, it's grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms. And controversial, too. India, for example, banned the app in 2020, and Australia barred children…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (581+ words) If you have a mobile phone, you have no doubt seen some dodgy texts. More often than not, these texts are scams. The websites you are directed to are fakes, often decked out with a misappropriated Google logo to trick…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (779+ words) To be honest, people are saying "honestly" all the time. According to the Corpus of Historical American English, a database that measures word usage over time, the use of "honestly" has skyrocketed over the last 25 years. Not just in casual…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (66+ words) Alachua County is partnering with Kinetic to bring high-speed internet to over four-thousand homes and businesses in the county. Reliable high-speed internet is something many Floridians don't think twice about'yet in parts of Alachua County it's hard to come by....

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (832+ words) A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that analyzed why dating apps are breaking the hearts of their users. The American Dialect Society named it…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (402+ words) Updated October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM EDT A massive outage at Amazon Web Services disrupted major websites and apps on Monday, in a show of how one company's online infrastructure has become essential for many modern businesses to function. Amazon said it…...