Zachary Lombardi, an elementary school arts teacher at PS 29 in Castleton Corners, was chosen as a New York City winner in the prestigious Big Apple Awards program for the 2024-2025 school year. Lombardi was named the Community School District 31 Award Recipient. District 31 encompasses the entirety of Staten Island public schools.

TikTok is set to go down — for now. The popular video-sharing app, used by 170 million Americans, was set to go dark late Saturday after TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company announced late Saturday that they will make their services “temporarily unavailable.

NBC News reports that TikTok has boosted advertisements for Lemon8, an application also owned by ByteDance, in recent days. Rival social-media apps and websites such as Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat are expected to increase their user base in the wake of a possible ban.

As all eyes and ears will be on Trump's inauguration, comparisons will be made to his speech that took took place eight years ago in 2017.

This was a busy week in tech, from the first reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 to TikTok's looming ban in the United States. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed. Nintendo Switch 2 has been officially announced with a tentative 2025 release date.

From the lead-up to Trump taking office to his plans for Day One of his second White House term, here's everything you need to know about Inauguration Day 2025.

TikTok, owned by ByteDance, is on the verge of being banned in the United States. The thing is, the government could go after other ByteDance apps, and there are quite a few of them operating in the U.

TikTok is still three days away from a likely ban in the United States, but many users are already bidding the app farewell and seeking out alternatives.

TikTok plans to shut its app for U.S. users on Sunday, when a federal ban on the social media app used by 170 million Americans is set to take effect, barring a last-minute reprieve, people familiar with the matter said.

A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will “sharply increase production’’ of semico

Apple is already testing the initial batch of processors produced for its devices by TSMC Arizona, reports Nikkei Asia. To begin with, the tests intend to compare the Arizona output to see if the quality is similar to chips produced in TSMC’s cutting-edge fabs in Taiwan.

Accountability systems should reflect the prodigious influence these companies have over our lives. Laura Manley is the executive director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.