School district Superintendents Dan Stepenosky and Art Javis weigh in on reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, millions of students are once again shifting to all-remote learning. Between Sunday, Nov. 22 and Monday, Nov. 23, the percentage of students exclusively attending school online jumped from 36.9 to 40 percent. Once again, school leaders and government officials are scrambling to figure out logistics. But there's a huge remote learning side effect they've yet to consider: Student loneliness.

We love pets here at YellRobot. But one café in Tokyo may be taking things to a whole new level. Every Sunday, The Penguin Café opens an hour earlier and holds play dates for customers and their dogs. They happen to be robots. Customers seem to be really into the robot play date. They dress their pets in fancy outfits and carry them in dog carriers.

A café in Tokyo, Japan has opened its doors to an unusual group of customers – robotic dogs. The Penguin Café invites hardware canines and their owners in for a play date every Sunday morning before opening to serve drinks and other treats to the public. The event, called'Aibo World' after Sony's robot dog, started a few months after the owner of the establishment purchased his own Aibo. Aibo World was first reported on by BuzzFeed, which walked in on a birthday party for two of the robotic dogs. A café in Tokyo, Japan has opened its doors to an unusual group of customers – robotic dogs.

Ask any parent how they feel about their kids' video gaming and you'll almost certainly hear concerns about all the hours spent in a virtual world and the possibility of antisocial or even violent behavior. But are these concerns valid? My teenage son is a gamer -- bigly -- and I've wrestled with how proactive I should be in monitoring an activity he's clearly passionate about. Research on the subject is all over the map, from those who say gaming is a benign part of young people's lifestyles to those who see it as a gateway to the next Columbine. The U.S. video game industry generated more than $30 billion in revenue last year, according the Entertainment Software Assn. Two-thirds of U.S. households have at least one member who plays three or more hours a week.