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Which toy computers are best? In the past few decades, laptops have become an indispensable tool for work and a device for play. Unfortunately, because they are so technical, so fragile and so ...

JUSTIN SYMINGTON THINKS ONE-TO-ONE computing works. But that wasn’t always the case. At first, having every child with a computer at his or her desk took some getting used to, but Symington, who ...

Learn-to-code startup Kano, whose products aim to turn kids into digital makers, has taken the wraps off the latest incarnation of its build-it-yourself computer kit. With the new flagship Kano is ...

Many kids and teens rely on computers to complete their homework, as well as play games and in some cases, use social media. At some point, though, your child may complain about a slow computer. If ...

Robert Szweda wants to give families that can’t afford a computer for their children the opportunity to own one. Szweda and Cliff Peterson, director and co-director of Computers for Kids in Baraboo, ...

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...