High school students debate tech issues
I had 20 years of schooling with classes in lots of subjects, but the two most important ones I took were junior high school typing and high school forensics. That …
Larry Magid
Microsoft Copilot and the AI Super Bowl
Sunday’s Super Bowl will have many exciting moments, but sorry sports betters, I am not able to predict what will happen on the field. But one prediction I can make …
Safer Internet Day is next Tuesday
Along with our counterparts in more than 100 countries, my colleagues at ConnectSafely and I are busy getting ready for Safer Internet Day, which gets underway Feb. 6. Exactly 10 …
Looking back on 40 years of Mac
Wednesday marked the 40th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh. It came out about a year into my tenure as a syndicated tech columnist, and even back then, I had seen …
Fears of Generative AI reminiscent of past moral panics
This column is based on a narrated slide deck and longer article that you can view at ConnectSafely.org/moralpanic. There has been a lot of ink spilled on doomsday scenarios about …
2024 may be year of extended reality
Virtual Reality (VR) headsets have been on the market for years, including several iterations from Meta’s Reality Labs, most recently its Quest 3 headset, introduced late last year. And while …
Pixel 8 Pro a feature-packed phone at a premium price
I usually review products soon after I get my hands on them, but in the case of Google’s Pixel 8 Pro, which I’ve had since early October, I decided to …
Tech New Years resolutions for 2024
I’m well aware that New Year’s resolutions are often abandoned by the end of January, but that’s no reason to avoid thinking about how we can improve our lives in …
Meta, Ray-Ban release second-generation smart glasses
I was riding my bicycle the other day taking pictures, talking on the phone and sending and receiving texts without ever taking my hands off the handle bars. All this …
2023 has been a tumultuous year for tech
As we approach the end of the year, it’s a good time to look back on 2023. The word that comes to mind is tumultuous, which, says Merriam Webster’s online …