Over the next year, parents whose children have Android phones and tablets will notice a new setting called “school time,” Google announced Thursday. The parental control allows caregivers to set limits on their child’s device functionality while at school, or during other periods when they want to minimize distraction. The …

The explosion of nonconsensual deepfake imagery online in the past year, particularly of female celebrities, has presented a difficult challenge for search engines. Even if someone isn’t looking for that material, searching for certain names can yield a shocking number of links to fake explicit photos and videos of that …

Apple‘s Cycle Tracking app will soon indicate the gestational age of a user’s pregnancy, according to an announcement made during the company’s WWDC 2024 presentation. SEE ALSO: Everything announced at WWDC 2024, from iOS 18 to Apple Intelligence Gestational age is a term that describes how far a pregnancy is, …

Google is looking to gamify physical activity for kids 7 and older with a smartwatch that also provides a digital tether to their parents. In other words, the Fitbit Ace LTE, which debuted Wednesday, aims to make everyone happy. Kids who like video games but maybe aren’t so fond of …

Parenting is hard. Sometimes parenting is so challenging that, by comparison, your smartphone becomes an easy escape. And even if you’d like to use your phone less, it’s hard to make a plan amid the daily grind of parenting tasks and obligations. After all, who wouldn’t rather watch TikToks of …