CyberGuy explains how to leave FaceTime messages on iOS 17. Whether you're a new parent or a seasoned one, we know how stressful and challenging it can be to raise children in this fast-paced and ever-changing world. Many parents today are looking for ways to leverage technology to enhance their parenting skills and support their children's development. And the best part is, you don't need to be a tech expert to use them. All you need is a device, an internet connection, and a chatbot named ChatGPT.

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Thursday morning starts with more Amazon products than you could ever possibly want. Remember how the retailer found success with its Echo speaker? Everything gets a voice assistant. Amazon might not have YouTube on Echo anymore, but the devices are coming in several new shapes and sizes. Our three-minute wrap-up video from the big event shows everything you need to know, or you can dive in to check out our impressions of the new Echo speakers (now in regular or tall size), its small-screened Echo Spot or the latest Fire TV device, which puts 4K video streaming in a dongle.

One of the hardest parts of motherhood, aside from the sleep deprivation and wild emotions, is the stinging, sudden realization that few friends get what you're going through. That loneliness inspires plenty of women to join mom's groups, postnatal yoga, music classes --basically any social activity that might lead to a new friend. Except what follows are often awkward social interactions between moms eager to make a connection but unsure whether the other person wants the same, or whether they're even a good fit for each other. A new, free app, Peanut, aims to take the guesswork out of that agonizing process. Much like a dating app, it uses an algorithm to match moms with similar interests and experiences.

Along with the arrival of a new human being into the world, pregnancy also seems to result in something else life-changing -- a woman's brain that's differently wired. Just what sort of'different' is less clear, but apparently some pretty notable changes take hold after a woman gives birth, according to a study published Monday in Nature Neuroscience. It reports that, after pregnancy, women's brains hold less gray matter in certain areas of the brain, particularly those regions dealing with things like social cognition and theory of mind, or knowing what's going on inside someone else's mind, as explained by Scientific American. The changes are thought to last for at least two years after birth. Led by neuroscientist Elseline Hoekzema of Leiden University, a research team at the Autonomous University of Barcelona carried out the study by looking at brain scans of 25 first-time mothers, from both before and after pregnancy, as well as the brain scans of 20 women with no children.