It's 1 o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon in Wallingford, Connecticut, and about 20 children are watching a screen at the front of the room as they take turns navigating challenges and collecting virtual currency to unlock powers, outfits and pets for their characters.
Many of the hottest new gadgets are also the nosiest ones.
Every year, the CES gadget show brings more devices promising to make life a little bit easier for harried parents. Sure, the kids might love them too: Who wouldn’t want a computerized Harry Potter wand that also teaches coding? The Las Vegas show’s growing “family tech” sector encompasses products that range from artificially intelligent toys and baby monitors to internet-connected breast pumps.
China broadcast Friday pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon’s far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to the less-understood sector of the lunar surface.
A small green shoot is growing on the moon in an out-of-this-world first after a cotton seed germinated on board a Chinese lunar lander, scientists said...
Once confined to the realms of science fiction, near real-time translation devices that whisper into your ear during a conversation are finally coming of age...
Technology firms tackling the challenge of autonomous driving are focusing on the “user experience” of vehicles that are increasingly becoming an extension of...
One day, finding an oven that just cooks food may be as tough as buying a TV that merely lets you change channels.
It’s only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli’s collection, but they carry a powerful message:...
Milan menswear designers are sending clear signals for next fall and winter: Feminine touches are not only acceptable, they are necessary.
Bacon and black coffee for breakfast, or oatmeal and bananas? If you’re planning to try to lose weight in 2019, you’re sure to find a fierce debate online and...
With billions of people either starving or obese, poor diets have become a leading cause of disease and death, prompting calls for a new approach in 2019 to...
Whether you find yourself standing in a volcanic crater, walking under the sea or playing a traditional instrument, a trip to Indonesia will leave you wanting...
As of noon Wednesday, chefs Bob Deeb and Tina Wazirian did not yet know what they would be cooking for the 100 people registered for a dinner event the...
Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware our roads in the winter.
Adventurer Ross Edgley became the first man to swim around the coast of mainland Britain as he completed a 2,865 kilometer-trip to make a triumphant return to...
SUVs and a big pickup truck will get top billing at Detroit’s auto show this year, but there are some surprise sports cars and electric vehicles on the agenda.
Acknowledged as a pioneer of race driven technology, McLaren finally decided to build a sports car to be driven every day of the week.
Can a “high-tech” burger help save the planet?
Astronomers in Canada have detected a mysterious volley of radio waves from far outside our galaxy, according to two studies published Wednesday in Nature.
The CES 2019 gadget show is revving up in Las Vegas.
South Korean carmaker Hyundai Monday gave a look at work it is doing on a vehicle with robotic legs to let it walk or crawl over treacherous terrain.
Employees will not need a key to get into the office of the future when it opens in Berlin this year, featuring ample meeting space, plenty of copy machines...
Behind Apple’s disconcerting news of weak iPhone sales lies a more sobering truth: The tech industry has hit Peak Smartphone, a tipping point when everyone...
Rising suicide rates and depression in U.S. teens and young adults have prompted researchers to ask a provocative question: Could the same devices that some...
Four billion miles from the sun floats Ultima Thule, an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced Wednesday is aptly shaped like a giant snowman.
NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny,...
A NASA spacecraft Tuesday flew past the most distant world ever studied by humankind, Ultima Thule, a frozen relic of the early solar system that could reveal...
The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world.
Millions of teenagers seeking their 15 seconds of fame are flocking to TikTok, but many of their parents are only now learning about the express-yourself...
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX Sunday launched a rocket carrying a U.S. military navigation satellite, the company's first national security space mission for...
Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least...
NASA's new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet's dusty red surface.
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off Thursday after two cancelled launches earlier this week due to last-minute technical...
Three astronauts returned to Earth Thursday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station.
Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system - and they’ve nicknamed the pink cosmic body “Farout.”
Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 tiny probes from New Zealand to study space.
A Virgin Galactic rocket plane reached space Thursday and returned safely to the California desert, capping off years of difficult testing to become the first...
Taken away as an infant and placed for adoption, Jen Stein was afraid that knowing nothing about her Native American past or any potential hereditary diseases...