Articles by larry

Facebook is updating its resources for people who are contemplating suicide or self-harm and making it easier for people to help friends or family members who may be at risk of self-harm. […]

At its developers conference on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Swift Playgrounds, a new iPad app to teach coding to kids. But, as CNET points out, Microsoft and Google have their own initiatives to […]

Project Fi is Google’s new cellular service that accesses both Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks along with WiFi to connect your calls through whatever signal works best as the time. It currently works only with Google Nexus phones […]

The players on the Golden State Warriors are great athletes, but the team’s use of technology also gives them an edge as CNET’s Terry Collins explains in this post and Brian Tong explores in this video.  

Click above to listen to Larry Magid’s 1-minute CBS News segment on Mind Yeti If you’re a parent, or wherever a student,  you know that school can be stressful and that stress can lead to […]

Personally I like Windows 10 and recommend that most people upgrade. But it’s your choice and if you don’t want to, you shouldn’t be tricked into doing so. If you did accidentally upgrade or have […]

Back in the days before most people used notebooks PC, tablets and smartphones, PCs had slots so you could expand and customize them. And now Google is borrowing that idea and building a modular smartphone […]

Social media’s role in the news business is now a big story thanks to Gizmodo’s accusation that Facebook contractors had introduced a liberal bias into picking which stories appear in the site’s trending section on […]

Chances are you’re carrying around a smartphone and using it for all sorts of things including texting, checking email, listening to music and navigation. For you it’s probably feels like a lifeline, but for refugees making the dangerous journey from Syria and other war torn countries to safer havens in Europe, it literally is a lifeline. […]

By Larry Magid Sextortion usually involves a perpetrator (typically male) getting hold of a picture of someone (typically female) and threatening to widely share those images unless the victim gives them something they want. And that […]