Year: 2018

With the holiday season upon us, a lot of people will be shopping online this year. For the most part, it’s pretty safe but there are some basic precautions worth remembering. […]

Probably the most useful feature of the AmazonBasics microwave is that you don’t have to reset the clock if your power fails or when you’re transitioning between standard and daylight-saving time. And, you can also […]

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/connectsafely/2018/11/21/holiday-tech-gifts-for-kids–whats-fun-and-appropriate.mp3 Whether it’s “Black Friday,” “Cyber Monday” or any other day during late November and December, parents and other adults are looking for holiday gifts to give to children and teens. And this year you’ll […]

It’s a convertible laptop made of leather. Well, not quite. There is glass and plastic in the appropriate places, but the exterior is genuine high quality leather, similar to what you’d find in auto upholstery […]

A survey from Pew Research found that a majority of Americans are opposed to the use of algorithms to make important decisions that affect people. But there are areas where people are OK with algorithms: […]

Apple has said that some of its iPhone X phones have a problem with the screen and some MacBook Pro computers (without touch-bar) can potentially lose data. For the iPhone X,  The display, or part […]

From a cost-benefit standpoint, the XR makes a lot of sense. It has a couple of drawbacks compared with its more expensive brethren, but, for practical purposes, it’s just as good. It’s everything most people need and want in an iPhone at $250 less than the cost of the smaller iPhone XS and $350 less than the somewhat larger XS Max. […]

Listen to Larry’s CBS News Radio Eye on Tech about these new laptops   I spend a fair amount of time on the road. When I’m traveling, I want a full-featured laptop that’s light enough […]

I’ve been on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) for more than 20 years, and since I’ve joined the board, I’ve seen a steady increase in the […]

We’ve all heard the stories about kids spending too much time with their devices or, worse, spending that time doing things online that they probably shouldn’t be doing. It’s been an issue since I started […]