TikTok has dubbed 2026 the year of the 'analog lifestyle' as people seek to reduce screen time. Many are swapping digital devices for analog products like film cameras, physical journals and record ...

Most brands approach QR Code safety as a trust challenge. The assumption is that consumers hesitate to scan QR Codes because they are wary of scams and do not trust QR Codes. Uniqode’s consumer survey ...

Abstract: A new type of analog error-correcting codes (Analog ECCs) has been proposed by Roth recently. The codes can correct errors of unlimited magnitudes even though the codeword is affected not ...

Although New York’s statewide smartphone ban has been largely successful in helping students focus in class and socialize more at lunch, it has also exposed an unexpected skill gap among students: ...

Time got away from them! New York City teachers have found that scores of teenagers can’t read traditional clocks after a cellphone ban in schools statewide — because students figured the skill would ...

Some New York City teachers say it’s high time for a refresher on old-fashioned clocks. Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones ...

In the modern era, where phone numbers are portable and geography is less tied to a person’s culture, area codes still hold a surprising amount of social weight. While the seven digits following an ...

Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which can answer complex questions on an image struggle to tell the time on analog clocks. Reading the time on an analog clock requires identifying ...

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...

A family on vacation walks toward a theme park on a humid afternoon, balancing bags and bottled water. The kids drift toward an ice-cream cart while their parents shuffle between a printed map, the ...