EdTech: The New Normal

AmazeVR, a Los Angeles-based company creating on-demand VR video, has raised $9.5 million in funding to refocus its efforts to create virtual VR concerts. The company says its immersive concerts will be coming to movie theaters, VR headsets, and special pop-up events at some point this year. The latest round was led by Murex Partners, …

From jump scares to terrifying monsters, games like Amnesia and Little Nightmares prepare me to handle a world filled with anxiety triggers.

Facebook has been criticized for failing to curb misinformation in English. But little attention has been paid to the scale of the problem in Arabic.

After a yearlong crash course in digital tools and remote teaching, a teacher reflects on what will stick in her brick-and-mortar classroom.

Coronavirus concerns have some businesses urging employees to work from home. If you’re telecommuting, for public health reasons or otherwise, remember: Boundaries are your friend.

We don’t need the next big thing. We need countless next little things.

Bring the world to your students with these free online experiences for your classroom.

Speech Recognition With an Arduino Nano: I was desperate for something to read during lockdown and found in my bookcase an IEEE report on Speech Recognition from the late 1970s. Could an Arduino Nano do the same as a computer from that era?How does a Nano compare with back then? A Nano has…

Confronting late-stage pandemic burnout, with everything from edibles to Exodus.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

After coming under attack, some of the city’s pro-democracy protesters have taken the fight for freedom from the street to video games.

Plus: The optimism of the early internet, the failure of Vine, and a cargo crisis.

The story-driven genre is enjoying an indie renaissance, thanks to new tools that are making the coding process simpler than ever.

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Teenagers and tweens will be fine, experts say — if adults model resilience.

Some families have come to prefer stand-alone virtual schools and districts are rushing to accommodate them — though questions about remote learning persist.

Teaching about coronavirus can make learning more relevant while helping students cope with feelings of uncertainty and instability.

Services like Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Now allow users to easily see if a new title is accessible without having to buy it first.

You don't have to suffer with tangled cords behind your TV or under your desk, even if you're committed to the wired life. Here's how to tidy up.

For some of us—isolates, happy in the dark—code is therapy, an escape and a path to hope in a troubled world.

With the right tools and goals in mind, teaching coding to 4- and 5-year-olds can develop important skills and reinforce concepts already taught in an elementary classroom, such as sequencing, patterns, measurement and creative storytelling.

Scores of plans to verify immunity are in the works. But there are even more questions about how they’ll use data, protect privacy—and who gets certified first.

A lot’s happened since Facebook’s first headset brought virtual reality to the masses. Facebook might have been a first mover, but it also wants to be the last one.

The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3, the well-known language program from OpenAI.

Mild and dire forecasting models serve different purposes, and can be tricky to interpret. But when they appear similar, it may signal the end of the pandemic.