Articles by larry

As you may know, I run a small nonprofit internet safety organization called ConnectSafely.org, and like most nonprofits, we’re always looking for ways to save both time and money. There are situations where spending a […]

The initial  reviews (see below) are somewhat mixed, but tech journalists who have had a chance to test out the Magic Leap One AR headset are — at least — impressed by the effort and […]

I recently purchased a 55-inch TCL 5- Series 4K TThe distance between the set and my eyes when sitting on the couch is 87 inches, and that’s as far as it can be given the dimensions of the room. In theory, the set was about the right size or maybe even a little small for the room, but in practice — at least as far as my wife and I were concerned, it was too big. (MORE)
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A friend called me the other day to say that she got an email asking for money to prevent the sender from sharing a comprimisng video of her watching porn.  Normally she would have ignored […]

The ability to influence who leads our country may be more powerful than the ability to blow things up The 1966 movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” was a fictitious comedy, but […]

Facebook has announced tools to enable both Facebook and Instagram users to better manage the time they spend using those apps. That will include an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and enhanced ways to limit […]

My wife, Patti, is pretty ho-hum about most of the products I review. But when I put Lenovo’s new Smart Display in the kitchen, she loved it, especially after I showed her how easy it […]

Google employees are now using a physical USB key to log on to their devices and, according to Krebs on Security, none “of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when […]

I don’t know what was more sophisticated, the Russian hacks or the U.S. Justice Department’s impressive computer forensics team that was able to break down these hacks in great specificity. As you’ll see from the indictment, the hackers employed both malware and “human engineering” to obtain information from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  […]

I could probably write a series of columns on my pet peeves about little and big things that bug me about technology, but I’ll start with ones that have annoyed me in just the past […]