Year: 2018

It’s been obvious for awhile that we’re starting to experience a tech backlash, with an increasing number of people expressing skepticism over whether our devices and social media are doing us harm. Some of this […]

Two recent news stories about cell phone location services recently caught my eye. One was a positive development and the other quite negative, until it was at least partially fixed. The positive story is that Apple’s iOS […]

One of my doctors recently reminded me that “sitting is the new smoking,” a mantra repeated by many in the medical community. He suggested I cut back the time in my chair. So, when a […]

Larry looks at a couple of dash cams whose footage he hopes to never have to look at […]

I see a connection between today’s ruling giving the go ahead for the AT&T/Time Warner merger and yesterday’s official end to net neutrality. While the decisions themselves were unrelated, the results could be very connected […]

The newest version of Gmail for Android (8.5.20) allows you to control what will happen with a left or right swipe from the screen. Gmail has long allowed you to archive or delete messages with […]

As the founder of SafeKids.com and co-founder of ConnectSafely.org, I’ve written volumes about parental controls that help parents limit what their kids can do online or with mobile devices. Apple already offers optional parental controls for iPhones […]

There are plenty of tools that allow parents to limit their kids’ use of devices, but Apple has gone one better. The new controls it’s launching with iOS 12 are designed for both adults and […]

A new survey from Pew Research found that Snapchat is now the social media app that teens use most often, followed closely by YouTube.
A slight majority (51 percent) still uses Facebook, but that’s down from 71 percent compared with Pew’s 2014-2015 survey. […]

The FBI recommends that”any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot) the devices.” It’s in response to a malware threat called VPNFiler that can render routers inoperable and potentially steal information, according to the bureau. There is also the risk of your home network infecting other networks. […]