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Toy review 2025: STEAM toys are HOT

The growing awareness of the value among parents wanting to develop and inspire their child’s interests is not only driving more companies to develop educational products but pushing sales. According ...

What to know before you buy an AI toy

In general, information about the model behind an AI toy can be hard to get. When testing Grok, the talking stuffie by Curio, ...

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but ...
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Child safety advocates warn parents to avoid AI toys this Christmas

Child-safety experts warn families to skip AI-powered toys this holiday season New advisory says AI toys can harm child ...

Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys

The child advocacy nonprofit Fairplay issued an advisory on Thursday warning people against buying AI toys this holiday ...
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Toy Story 5 Explores That "Nobody's Really Playing With Toys Anymore"

Toy Story 5 is tackling the idea of iPad kids, and "the realisation of an existential problem: that nobody's really playing ...

‘Toy Story 5’ Wants to Be About More Than Just Tech Anxiety

Despite what it looked like, 'Toy Story 5' has more on its mind than kids being on them dang tablets and phones all day.

Pixar director says "nobody's being robbed" of the original Toy Story trilogy with Toy Story 5: "They can have that and never watch another if they don't want to"

Toy Story 5 is on the way, arriving 16 years after the release of Toy Story 3 back in 2010. That movie seemed to say goodbye ...