(New York, NY — April 17, 2020) — Today, TIME for Kids, the school-based publication that has provided quality, trusted journalism to millions of students in elementary classrooms for 25 years, and Adobe, maker of world-leading creative applications giving everyone the tools to discover and express their creativity, launch a new weekly interactive video series,…

Image copyright Fanbytes Image caption Seb, Monty, SurfaceLdn, Shauni, Lily and Katie Six of the UK’s most popular TikTok content creators have moved in together and are trying to meet a surge in demand from teenagers in lockdown, despite some doubts about the timing.The Bytesquad collective planned the move prior to the coronavirus pandemic and…

Earlier this month, my friend Claire Arkin, 30, a non-profit worker in Berkeley, Cali., told me she’d been having oddly vivid and specific dreams. In one, she was getting dressed to attend a fancy gala, but instead of donning an evening gown and diamonds, she wrapped herself in toilet paper, “like some kind of f–ked…

Image copyright Getty Images / TikTok Image caption Drake’s new song has triggered a dance challenge on social media How is Drake coping with life in lockdown? Fighting boredom by dropping dance moves, if the video for his new single, Toosie Slide, is anything to go by.Beyond showing the rapper taking isolation seriously, donning a…

NEW YORK — Desperate small business owners who hoped for a quick government lifeline to help them survive the coronavirus crisis are still without funds, instead battling red tape, wary banks and swamped computer systems. Thousands of owners who applied for loans under the government’s Paycheck Protection Program are in their second week of waiting…

Image caption Victoria Repa avidly read business books as a child The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Ukrainian entrepreneur Victoria Repa, founder of weight-loss and fitness app BetterMe.Victoria Repa had an unlikely start in life for a successful tech entrepreneur – she…

Image copyright Caremongers India With India under lockdown and social distancing being advised to deal with the threat of the coronavirus, an online collective of “Caremongers” is reaching out to help the elderly and other vulnerable groups. It started last week when Mahita Nagaraj, a digital marketing professional and single mum, received a call from…

America’s democracy is at risk from more than Russian Twitter trolls. Our voting systems, the information technology that undergirds our elections, are dangerously outdated and vulnerable to attack. And for Finnish data security expert Harri Hursti, the best defense we have might be counting paper ballots. We don’t have to count every vote by hand,…

Image copyright Cathy Wassell Image caption Digital marketing agency owner Cathy Wassell has been self-employed for 17 years Many self-employed people are struggling because work is being cancelled during the coronavirus outbreak, but are excluded from financial measures announced by the UK government.”It made me feel as if I wasn’t of any importance,” says Cathy…

Image caption Jake Sweet, also known as the Tiktok star Surfaceldn When I meet up with Jake Sweet (aka Surfaceldn on TikTok), he’s buzzing. He’s about to be flown out to the MTV Video Music Awards in Spain as a special guest. Dinner will be laid on, he explains, and there will be aftershow parties…