Computers are often seen as a tool to enhance and facilitate learning—but a new study finds using computers can decrease how much students actually take away from a lecture. It’s not the computer per ...

Patrick Holland has been a phone reviewer for CNET since 2016. He is a former theater director who occasionally makes short films. Patrick has an eye for photography and a passion for everything ...

A group of American researchershave developed Brainput -- pronounced brain-put, not bra-input -- a system that can detect when your brain is busy, and offload some of your workload to a computer.

Everybody multitasks. We have conversations while driving. We answer email while browsing the Web. It's hard to imagine living any other way. What would be the alternative, removing the seats from ...

The amount of time people spend on the computer while watching TV is going up sharply. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that people who multitask this way spent an average of three and a half hours doing ...

A group of American researchershave developed Brainput -- pronounced brain-put, not bra-input -- a system that can detect when your brain is busy, and offload some of your workload to a computer.