Is the smart home device a smart choice for families?

Facebook isn't the only digital voyeur to worry about.

Can an ancient practice solve a modern problem?

More women in cybersecurity would make the Internet safer for all.

It's bleak.

Is it only Alexa you're talking to?

It turns out we are just hard-wired to love socializing. Now we just have to learn how to do it healthily.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a game to help us all learn how to spot fake news sites and campaigns, by putting players in the role of disseminator. “If you know what it is like to walk 

Last week, Facebook launched its Messenger Kids app for Android, the app that, as we reported back in December when it debuted for iOS, allows kids aged 6 to 13 to communicate online, ostensibly safely, and with parent-approved contacts. While 

Two months ago, I was deep in the throes of a supposedly philosophical discussion about the simultaneous usefulness and futility of Instagram, about how the platform has turned into a marketplace to display our excesses, when I had an epiphany. 

Any space, physical or theoretical, which has enough people congregating in it will give rise to smaller communities within the space. Earlier, this meant people in a specific geographical location, with some common characteristic, belief or goal, would bind together. 

Teens with a phone ‘addiction‘ are markedly unhappier, concludes a new study led by Jean M. Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University. Twenge’s team explored data from a longitudinal study that asked American eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders questions about 

An online footprint doesn’t have to be a liability. Rather than just teaching children about Internet safety and reducing their digital footprint, we should also encourage them to curate a positive digital footprint which will be an asset for them 

We’re used to shaking our heads at ineffective knee-jerk reactions, but this one seems worthy of a little outrage: the Delhi government plans to install continuous CCTV camera monitoring in classrooms across all schools in the state, and make the 

The right apps for young kids can be a learning experience; the wrong ones can frustrate development. They walked into my clinic, husband and wife, in silence. Looking at their stressed faces one could instantly tell they had a strained 

Siri is a prude. Is anyone surprised? There’s little sex education in India. And now condom ads are banned (which, if not education, were at least exposure). So, if a naturally curious teen wants information on the birds and the bees,