The textbooks can toggle between languages so students who aren't native speakers can check their understanding. Another advantage: the digital books' cost. Discovery's lessons — branded 'Techbooks' ...

Nonprofits and a Christian university are bringing new technology to the country’s remotest areas. Twelve-year-old Rita Lesina treks more than 1.5 miles every morning over a dusty, rugged road in ...

WASHINGTON – Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today outlined a future of computing akin to a Whole Earth Catalog for technology. The computing systems of the future will be more natural, responsive ...

When I was thinking about getting my first e-reader, I kept coming back to the same question: why not just get a tablet? After all, a tablet, like an iPad, can do a lot more than an e-reader. And what ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks. Welcome to the new ...