Treat yourself or the student in your life to the best laptops, accessories, and study aids for a new semester.
Start the school year right with all of the best tech to hopefully ace all of your courses.
All the best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and beyond, including Wonka, Arrival, and Back to the Future.
This less-expensive AMD 2-in-1 works as a midsize laptop for work, but also folds into a tablet for fun.
The best VPNs hide traffic from your school’s IT department, which is why you should never use them.
The tech gear students need, from grade school to high school to college, as recommended by our experts.
Make sense of your jotting and scribbling with these versatile apps.
Not that we condone getting kicked out of the classroom, but these are fun.
All the gear you'll need to be the student everyone wants to hang out with.
The gear you'll need to maximize your living space when headed back to school this fall.
As horror fans know by now, Hulu and Blumhouse’s Into the Dark series injects a scary story into each month’s seasonally-appropriate holiday. But since August doesn’t really have a traditional holiday of its own, the next installment has a little fun with the theme, making it a “back to school” thing and riffing heavily on…
The EpiPen, a life-saving medical product for treating severe allergies, is in short supply as American kids head back to school. But Mylan, the pharmaceutical company that owns the EpiPen, has come up with a solution to the shortage: Expand the expiration date on some of its products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
It’s back-to-school season, that special time of year when a cloud of malaise descends on America’s youth and beleaguered parents find themselves bombarded with ads for all manner of awful gimmicky schlock in the name of education. You’re better off burning your money than buying any of these terrible back-to-school gadgets. K-12 Disasters “Bump n’…
It’s hard to build a cheap two-in-one PC that doesn’t have something fundamentally wrong with it. Believe us, we’ve looked—lower end convertibles usually have bad screens, flimsy hinges or sell essential accessories separately. Then something like the new 10-inch HP Pavilion x2 comes along. It’s small, costs only $300 and, at first blush, seems to…
School is starting again, and whether you’re a student in college or a student of life, you need to boot up your brain with some good inspiration. Here is a book list to get you thinking about the world in a new way — and help you make the transition back into study mode. We’ve…
For many people, Labor Day marks the beginning of the college year, and a return to academic pomp and dignity. But did you know Columbia was only founded because New Yorkers couldn’t stand that New Jersey had a college? And UPenn fudged its founding date to beat Princeton? Learn all the dirty secrets of American…
When you camp in the Sierra mountains of California, the night skies are incredible. Our Milky Way galaxy is splashed across the dark dome, and you can see every constellation that’s normally blotted out by city lights. Now, imagine you’re out there with astrophysicists, explaining it all to you. That’s how I spent my summer…
Okay, this is it. Back to school, again. Whether it’s your first college semester or you can see graduation on the horizon, these tools will make the next few months infinitely more bearable. Take Note This isn’t 2003; you no longer need to carry a cumbersome spiral-bound notebook that will either get lost/torn/burned by your…
Amazon’s Gold Box deal today is a back-to-school blowout, full of robust discounts on everything from backpacks to… portable scanners. Okay, so maybe it’s not quite the cornucopia of delights you might have hoped for. But for every iPad speaker dock in the bunch, there are a few gems you genuinely need. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=xs_gb_A3AY5CGCCPYOTE?tag=gizmodo08c-20 Worth It…
Apple’s just launched its Back to School promotion, which will get people in education a $100 App Store gift card when they purchase a Mac or $50 with an iPad or iPhone. That’s a similar deal to last year, though the inclusion of the iPhone offer is new—and welome. The App Store gift card can…
