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Social media: It’s not just for college kids anymore. Families use Facebook to stay in touch across generations. Friends well into middle age share photos on Instagram. There’s even an 80-year-old grandmother on a quest for 80,000 Twitter followers. But how does social media’s widening reach affect the family unit? The brand-engagement firm GMR Marketing [...]

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Police are warning primary school pupils about chatting online amid fears that paedophiles are targeting children on websites such as Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin. Bedfordshire Police is sending officers into more than 300 schools to raise awareness about online imposters after parents highlighted possible ‘grooming’ incidents. One mother told police that her son was [...]

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A teenage boy is accused of heading a group of hackers who targeted Tony Blair, MI5 and the BNP. TeamPoison claimed responsibility for hacking Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist hotline and posted recordings on YouTube. The 17-year-old was arrested on Friday and police seized all of his computer equipment. He was released on bail over the weekend. [...]

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Proposals for a default block on internet pornography have been criticised as impractical and potentially counterproductive by technology experts and civil liberties campaigners, setting them at loggerheads with groups such as the NSPCC ahead of a potentially stormy government consultation. David Cameron announced last week that the government would consult on methods to improve online [...]

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Hogwarts, the wizarding school at the centre of the Harry Potter books, can now count 3 million virtual pupils among its numbers after fans rushed to sign up to creator JK Rowling’s latest venture Pottermore. After its initial launch date of last October slipped and slipped, Pottermore eventually went live to all on the morning [...]

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Martha Payne, nine, posted the series of pictures as part of a writing project she started with her father Dave. When she first checked her website, called NeverSeconds, late last month to see if she had any reaction, it had received only three hits. But on Thursday it had become an internet hit and amassed more [...]

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Swedish developer Toca Boca has passed the 10m downloads milestone for its children’s apps, less than four months after crossing the 5m mark. Now chief executive Björn Jeffery has moved to San Francisco in order to build the company’s momentum in the US, launching a marketing and analytics division for the company, which is a [...]

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Children as young as four are acting out scenes from violent computer games in school playgrounds, headteachers have warned. John Killeen, head of South Cave Church of England school in Brough, North Yorkshire, and an executive member of the National Association of Head Teachers, said he had become “aware of children playing inappropriate games they [...]

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The best-selling author said parents should consider restricting the use of mobile phones and websites, encouraging their children to go back to “old-fashioned” interaction. Sir Terry, 64, said the new technology was restricting young people’s thoughts and said having a wide vocabulary “stops you getting frustrated”. In an interview with the Evening Standard, he said [...]

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Children fighting cancer have to deal with chemotherapy, hair loss and hospital stays. Now, an iOS app is taking a bit of the load off their shoulders by making pain diaries — the daily log of their experience with the disease — easier to manage. Pain Squad is the first iOS app designed for kids [...]

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Online gaming among tween girls is on the rise, as more are turning to the web to take quizzes and participate in social role-playing challenges, a new study suggests. A new report by tween gaming platform GirlsgoGames.com found that about 50% of tween girls between the ages of 8 and 12 are turning to the [...]

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A new chat system to Club Penguin, which allows children aged five and over to play and chat together online using penguin avatars, will automatically translate pre-selected phrases between the languages used on the site. The chat system currently contains 300,000 phrases but an update, due later this year, will extend that number to more than [...]

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A never-before-seen interview with Steve Jobs will premier in Cannes next month which is being called the most comprehensive and revealing yet. Jobs was being interviewed by technology journalist Bob Cringely in 1995 for a Channel 4 series, Triumph Of The Nerds, but only a few minutes of footage was used. The famously private Apple [...]

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Parents are helping their children to set up under-age profiles on social networking site Facebook, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has said. This meant that children were getting involved in social media at too young an age, he suggested. He added that parents had a responsibility to monitor youngsters’ online activity. The comments came in a debate on [...]

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He already has the doe-eyed good looks and an army of female fans called the Mayniacs. Now Conor Maynard can really be called “Britain’s Justin Bieber” after the Brighton musical prodigy displaced the Canadian teen idol from the chart summit with his debut single. Maynard, 19, enjoys a rather different life to his college peers. [...]

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He looks as if butter wouldn’t melt. But this is the little boy who spent £1,000 of his parent’s cash  – playing an online computer game. Cheeky Jake Sadler, six, from Portsmouth, managed to fritter the money buying ‘pretend gold’ to play the Zombie Takeover game – free to download – on his mother’s iPad. [...]

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Life for huge river otters stuck in an aquarium must be a little dull to say the least. But this little girl seems to have brightened up their day – with her fingers. There’s no need to worry though – the otters didn’t help themselves to a snack. Footage captured at Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania, shows a cute [...]

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Your background is in music and presenting – how did you get onto a technology show? I’ve always been a technology fan. I thought my Game Boy was the most amazing thing ever as a kid. At 16 I got a mobile – a real brick – and I was obsessed. Since then I’ve loved [...]

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In the long-running tradition of cute kids narrating things on YouTube, BBC America presented this gem Thursday: children supposedly auditioning to replace narrator David Attenborough on its hit nature series Planet Earth. In honor of Earth Day, BBC America is playing the full, uncut version of the nature docu-series for the first time on April [...]

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Parents whose children have accidentally run up huge bills playing games on their iPhones could be in line for compensation from Apple. Campaigners are awaiting the result of a U.S. court case in which a group of disgruntled parents are suing the company after their children’s innocent game playing ended up costing a fortune.   They [...]

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Draw Something, an online version of Pictionary, has had more than 50 million downloads on iPad, iPhone and Android and has held the top spot in the iTunes app store for the five weeks.   Manufacturers are now trying to cash in on the popularity of the app, with one company releasing a retro stylus [...]

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Major internet companies were yesterday accused of being ‘complicit’ in exposing children to extreme violence and hardcore pornography online. Broadband providers reiterated their refusal to give parents the choice of blocking pornography coming into the home on every household device. Their defiance comes despite an independent inquiry into online protection by MPs warning that a [...]

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Parents whose children have accidentally run up huge bills playing games on their iPhones could be in line for compensation from Apple. Campaigners are awaiting the result of a U.S. court case in which a group of disgruntled parents are suing the company after their children’s innocent game playing ended up costing a fortune. Apple, [...]

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A generation of girls is now being sexually corrupted by the web Insecure and desperate for male attention, Becky was just 15 when she began meeting strangers for sex via the internet. Sadly, her story is becoming all too common… Low self-esteem: When she was a teenager, Becky became addicted to having sex with strangers [...]

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Jake Foushee started voicing film trailers when his voice dropped at the age of 13. A year later, the teenager from North Carolina has become a sensation on YouTube. BBC Radio 5 live’s Tony Livesey spoke to him and his father Chip about his “cool” voice via BBC News – Coming soon? The 14-year-old ‘voiceover [...]

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Online paedophiles are abandoning known grooming practices and striking up highly sexualised conversations with their prey within just two minutes. The internet has become so awash with potential victims that sexual predators are now making an immediate pass at children and simply moving on to the next one if unsuccessful. They are also branching out [...]

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Parents had enough to worry about before their children could bully each other online, meet dangerous strangers without leaving the house, and switch between tasks at a rapid-fire pace. Some parents have even questioned whether their children will ever be able to concentrate. In a world where, according to one survey, 81% of toddlers have [...]

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KONY 2012 director and co-founder of Invisible Children Jason Russell was arrested by police in San Diego Thursday evening. Russell was detained in the Pacific Beach neighborhood, with charges of public drunkenness and lewd behavior, NBC San Diego reports. The 33-year-old father of two shot to fame this month after the 30-minute documentary film he [...]

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An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania – using satellite images. Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India’s trains. “It was late at night. We [...]

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MPs call for automatic block on all online porn to stop the surge in children watching adult material Six out of ten children download adult material By GERRI PEEV Internet users should automatically be blocked from accessing pornography at home to stop the surge in children seeing adult material, MPs will demand today. Anyone wanting [...]

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A cross-party group of MPs said internet firms have a responsibility to ensure that children are unable to access inappropriate content online, including websites promoting self harm and extreme violence, but that current efforts were “inadequate”. The Inquiry heard evidence from children’s charities, academics, religious groups, and industry experts, and concluded that many parents lack [...]

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Coming soon? The 14-year-old boy with the amazing voice bidding to be the next ‘movie trailer guy’ Scroll down to see Jake Foushee’s voiceover video Scroll down further to see how it compares to ‘Voiceover King’ Don LaFontaine By MATT BLAKE Schoolboy Jake Foushee has taken his bid to become a voice actor by the [...]

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Apple faces a lawsuit from American parents angry at large bills run up by their children via iPhone and iPad apps. The group was granted permission to go ahead with the class action claim by a federal judge, who rejected Apple’s call for the case to be dismissed.   It surrounds in-app purchasing, whereby users buy virtual [...]

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Drool, sticky fingers, crushed Goldfish crackers. If you’re a parent, chances are your digital devices have been affected by one or more of these substances. So, why not childproof them — as soon as possible? We’ve found 11 adorable cases to childproof your iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The best part is they’re all super [...]

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For decades they have been scoffing sweets, harassing ‘softies’ and even clinching vital last-minute goals in the FA Cup final. Now Britain’s best-loved comic characters are about to receive a first-class tribute for their long service to the cause of children’s entertainment. The Royal Mail will this week release a range of ten stamps featuring [...]

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The current information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in England’s schools is a “mess” and must be radically revamped, the education secretary has announced. From September it will be replaced by a flexible curriculum in computer science and programming, designed with the help of universities and industry. Nick D’Aloisio is a schoolboy from London who [...]

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A 12-year-old boy was subjected to an obscene tirade by a new iPhone when he tested out its new voice technology in a supermarket, according to reports. Charlie Le Quesne was trying out the iPhone 4S at a Tesco store in Coventry when it told him: “Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***.” The boy [...]

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Two-month old twin polar bears prepare to meet visitors in Northeast China in the New Year.

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This is the eight-year-old boy from Georgia who spends his weekends going to the airport to thank troops for protecting his country.

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American commentators have claimed a Pakistani child disfigured by burns and taken to the US for medical treatment was injured by her country’s own military, not a US drone strike.

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Traditional textbooks are dying out in schools as children increasingly rely on smartphones and e-readers to access information, according to a leading headmistress.

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Most teenagers will find any reason under the sun not to do their homework.

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Afghan police have rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a lavatory for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said on Tuesday.

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It helped her to write after memory loss from radiotherapy

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Thousands of Israelis are expected to march through the city of Bet Shemesh later this week to protest against the treatment of women by ultra-orthodox Jewish extremists, with tensions high after a seven-year-old girl said she had been spat on in the street.

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President Barack Obama exchanged gifts with his family, sang carols and attended church services as he celebrated Christmas in Hawaii. The president and his family woke up early Sunday to exchange gifts, the White House said, then the Obamas had breakfast and sang Christmas carols at the multimillion-dollar house they rent in Kailua Beach, near [...]

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As Sri Lanka’s civil war came to a bloody end in May 2009, the BBC’s Priyath Liyanage was struck by video footage of a boy walking through the war zone holding a violin. Two years on, can this boy be traced and why did he make such a perilous journey with only a musical instrument?

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If Santa fancies taking a breather after his gift-giving jaunt around the world tonight, there’s one spot on the planet where he’ll feel right at home.

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