Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Without smartphones in hand, students are looking up at classroom clocks — and realizing they can't read them ©Image Credit: ...

Although New York’s statewide smartphone ban has been largely successful in helping students focus in class and socialize more at lunch, it has also exposed an unexpected skill gap among students: ...

Time got away from them! New York City teachers have found that scores of teenagers can’t read traditional clocks after a cellphone ban in schools statewide — because students figured the skill would ...

New York City’s new cellphone ban in schools has helped increase focus and social engagement, but it has also revealed that some students struggle to read analog clocks. As one teacher lamented, "It ...

Some New York City teachers say it’s high time for a refresher on old-fashioned clocks. Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones ...

Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which can answer complex questions on an image struggle to tell the time on analog clocks. Reading the time on an analog clock requires identifying ...

Nuclear clocks are the next big thing in ultra-precise timekeeping. Recent publications in the journal Nature propose a new method and new technology to build the clocks. Timekeeping has become more ...

DEAR HELOISE: I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and know many young people who are able to text on their phones with ...

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If you can read a traditional analog clock then congratulations, you’re smarter than artificial intelligence. AI is proving to be good at a lot of things, but reading an old-fashioned clock is not one ...