The 2025-26 school year is going to look different for the 2 million students and 200,000 teachers that make up New York’s K-12 classrooms. None of them, by law, will have their phones on them. In May, Governor Kathy Hochul passed the Distraction Free Schools Initiative as part of the state’s 2026 budget, a law…
In yet another unsurprising twist, social media users have found a new way to voice their disdain for AI and the tech industry’s obsession with automation — by reviving an old insult: clanker. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Originally used in the Star Wars prequels as a…
On July 15, during a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron appeared on the kiss cam, embracing Kristin Cabot, the company’s head of HR. It would have been a cute candid moment if not for the fact that the pair immediately tried their absolute best to hide from the…
President Donald Trump has been ratioed on his own social media platform Truth Social after urging supporters to move on from convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Truth Social users are usually overwhelmingly supportive of Trump, making such backlash against the U.S. president unprecedented on the platform. SEE ALSO: ‘The Daily Show’ mocks Trump’s response…
X CEO and Elon Musk collaborator Linda Yaccarino is officially leaving her top seat at the social media company. Yaccarino declared that she would be stepping down as CEO in an X post, writing: …When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime…
Since its release on Netflix this past June, KPop Demon Hunters has found a passionate audience and a thriving online fandom. The animated action-comedy about a demon-slaying K-pop girl group has inspired fan-made merch, fan art, and group chat-level obsession. While the film leans into the spectacle with stadium-sized bangers and a rival boy group…
Since its release on Netflix this past June, K-pop Demon Hunters has found a passionate audience and a thriving online fandom. The animated action-comedy about a demon-slaying K-pop girl group has inspired fan-made merch, fan art, and group chat-level obsession. While the film leans into the spectacle with stadium-sized bangers and a rival boy group…
Tumblr is ditching — or, at least, suspending — its plan to migrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that also means pausing plans of integrating Tumblr into the fediverse. That news dropped Monday on the Decoder podcast from The Verge. Automattic, which owns Tumblr, announced last year it planned to move Tumblr‘s backend of its website…
“Happy Pride!” Recently, that simple message was “de rigueur” for large corporations — including tech companies — to extol on their merchandise, press releases, and social media feeds. Much has changed with the second presidential election of Donald Trump, who made banishing DEI one of his signature endeavors. Even before his reelection, tech giants like Amazon’s…
On Wednesday, Nickelodeon’s Tiny Chef got a call — his cooking show had been cancelled. The adorable chef delivered the news in a heartbreaking video clip that has now gone viral. “But we won an Emmy!” Tiny Chef cries. The internet is now crying with him. The Tiny Chef Show, a blend of stop-motion and…