You’ve put in long hours studying for your college midterms and don’t want anyone copying your answers. What do you do? You make a wacky anti-cheating hat that blocks your peers from seeing your test, of course.   Enlarge Image Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz That’s what students at a school in the Philippines did on the …

Hawkins, Indiana, may be home to murderous monsters, but it’s way less threatening when you toss in campy musical numbers and silly wigs.  You get plenty of both in Stranger Sings: The Parody Musical, which bills itself as a “hilarious ‘upside down’ take” on the hit Netflix horror drama about young friends facing supernatural forces in a fictional ’80s town. …

Cell phones are endlessly handy. You can make calls with them, play games, find your way around unfamiliar cities — and lure escaped peacocks.  That’s how a Boston police officer used his device this week when faced with a big bird that had broken out of the Franklin Park Zoo.  Enlarge Image Snowbank out and about in Boston.  Boston Police …

There are few places you’re as likely to be overcome by the tyranny of choice as on dating apps. Choice is not an issue on Singularity, a new dating app for women. It features one guy and one guy alone.  Enlarge Image Aaron Smith is trying to make it easier for you.  Screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET That guy is Aaron …

If you’re on the ground at Coachella this weekend and get tired of posting selfies between acts, you can fill the time tracking flying space objects instead. An AR-equipped stage at the music festival’s Sahara Tent will shoot space-themed content around for those who open the Coachella Camera in the Coachella iOS or Android app and point their phones at video screens during …

Super-athlete Bo Jackson meets a mermaid and a horse with wings in Sprint’s Super Bowl 2019 ad.  “How do we tell people they get the best of both worlds with Sprint?” Paul Marcarelli, the Sprint spokesman formerly known as the Verizon spokesman, asks a few cute robots hanging out with him in a living room. Replies one of them: “How …

Gather round, kiddies, and let me tell you about a time when we’d take a photo, and then wait, sometimes for hours or even days, to see how it came out. Back then, we couldn’t check voicemail while walking down the street unless we stopped at a payphone (a big box you put coins into). Enlarge Image Quality over quantity: …

Natalie LeBaron dissected earthworms, grasshoppers and frogs for her 10th-grade biology class. Sure, high school students have been excising amphibian hearts for decades — but not like LeBaron. She wields her scalpel on top of the dryer in her family’s laundry room in Stockton, California. LeBaron, 15, had just completed her sophomore year with Stanford Online High School (mascot: the …

An auto shop in Poland has a little lesson for the consumer masses conditioned to grab the latest, sleekest, fastest gadgets. The shop uses a Commodore 64 that goes back 25 years. “This C64C used by a small auto repair shop for balancing drive shafts has been working non-stop for over 25 years,” reads a post this week on Commodore …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 The camera built into Snapchat’s “Spectacles” lets you shoot video that shows the world from your point of view. Spectacles.com Like to view the world through Snapchat-colored glasses? You’ll soon be able to do that for real. The millennial-friendly messaging service plus social network plus video hub …