Faster Bluetooth pairing and a better app come to Sphero's educational platform. From painting to swimming to maze-running, we put it through its paces. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

When I was growing up, kids at my school were far more likely to be taking a typing class than learning how to code. But computers have become such an integral part of our lives – from the powerful ...

The classroom can be a boring place, but the students of the future seem to be in for a much more high-tech education, with companies such as Aerowood creating products to develop skills for a coding ...

Facebook has announced a new initiative that aims to teach coding skills to more school kids. Targeting primarily underrepresented student groups — such as Black, Latino/Hispanic, Native American and ...

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When you think about learning how to code, you may imagine people hunkering down over a laptop in a dark room, staring at lines and lines of incomprehensible words, letters and symbols. You probably ...

When it comes to introducing the world of programming, coding and hackery, we all know what platforms to go to: Raspberry Pi, Arduino... Sphero? This little white ball, controllable with your ...