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Are sleep trackers on your phone helping you get a full night's rest? NPR's Life Kit investigates.

Prediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the industry's bonanza.

A global study published this week by the Brookings Institution weighs the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in K-12 classrooms, and finds the risks outweigh the benefits — at least for now.

Elon Musk's social media company X says it will block its AI chatbot Grok from creating explicit images of real people after governments around the world launched investigations into the feature.

As President Trump approaches one year back in office, the policies his administration pursues — and how those policies are communicated — have been increasingly shaped by social media.

Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.

Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.

Verizon customers across the U.S. were affected by a widespread outage Wednesday. NPR's A Martinez asks Lee McKnight of Syracuse University about vulnerabilities in the nation's wireless grid.

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Every year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 breakthroughs poised to take off in the coming year. Amy Nordrum, executive editor of operations there, talks through this year's entries.