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Apple Fighting Gender-Gap One App Developer At A Time
From left: Livia Cunha, Nané Toumanian, and Tatevik Gasparyan are part of the inaugural class of Apple Entrepreneur Camp attendees arriving at Apple Park. (Credit: Apple) Apple’s spaceship-like Apple...
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How to disable Apple Facetime till the company fixes serious privacy flaw
As you may have heard, there is a flaw on Apple Facetime for iOS and Mac that makes it possible for someone to listen in on what the microphone of another user hears even if that person hasn’t accepted...
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Safer Internet Day 2019 reaches out to under served communities
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News This coming Tuesday, my nonprofit, ConnectSafely.org, will host the official U.S. Safer Internet Day event at Google’s Seattle headquarters...
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Google offers Chrome extension to check for stolen passwords
On Safer Internet Day, Google released a Chrome browser extension called Password Checkup, that checks to see if any of your recently used passwords were detected in a data breach. The extension, which...
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Make sure you have secure and unique passwords
Weak or compromised passwords are among the biggest threats to online security and privacy. Once cyber criminals get hold of your password, they can not only use it to break into your account but sell...
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Despite rare Seattle snow, families came & cameras rolled at U.S Safer...
ConnectSafely staff in front of ‘step at repeat’ and SID 2019 (left to right: Patti Regehr, Lynn Lonsway, Maureen Kochan, Larry Magid, Kerry Gallagher, Hani Khan A rare Seattle snow storm forced...
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Online romance scam losses on the rise. How to protect yourself
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Federal Trade Commission published a post saying that in 2018, there were more than 21,000 reports “about romance scams with reported losses of $143 million,” up...
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AI looks its best as a human companion, not overlord
Photo courtesy of IBM This post first appeared in the Mercury News by Larry Magid 2016 World Debating Championships Grand Finalist and 2012 European Debate Champion Harish Natarajan was standing on the...
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Government Accounting Office calls for improved internet privacy protections
While not going so far as to recommend specific legislation, the Government Accounting Office, in a Report to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, pointed out that “The United States does not have...
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Samsung has the upper hand. For now
After watching Samsung’s latest series of product announcements, I’m beginning to think that the Korean company may — temporarily at least — have the upper hand when it comes to mobile device...
View ArticleConsumer Reports Auto Editor On Why Tesla Lost Recommendation & Tesla’s Response
Consumer Reports has dropped its coveted Recommended rating on the Tesla Model 3. Consumers Union published a blog post about the decision but — to find out more — I also interviewed that post’s...
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Reflections on 25-years of online safety advocacy
Child Safety on the Information Highway (this is the 1998 edition. First edition was 1994) Note: This is a work-in-progressed, subject to editing and changes by Larry Magid Twenty five years ago, in...
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Looking back at the web on its 30th birthday
This post first appeared in the Mercury News by Larry Magid The World Wide Web turns 30 this month, and you’re invited to its birthday party that will take place in Meyrin, Switzerland, London and...
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Flying cars could be lifting off soon
Bell Air Taxi Anil Nanduri, general manager of Intel’s drone group, told CNET’s Stephen Shankland that “There will definitely be flights with flying cars in five years. At scale? Probably not. But...
View ArticleVaccines, Autism and the First Amendment
by Larry Magid (note: This is an unedited preview of a column that will soon appear in the Mercury News) The messy thing about our First Amendment is that it protects nearly all speech, not just...
View ArticleFacebook strives to end age, gender and location discrimination
In response to litigation by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and other parties, Facebook is making...
View ArticleNunes’ Twitter lawsuit backfires, elevates his critics
He’d be better off using the platform to promote issues important to his constituency Based on a lawsuit he filed, Rep. Devin Nunes thinks he has a problem with Twitter. But it’s not really with...
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Apple bites into services
TIm Cook and Oprah (screen shot from Apple webcast) If you had a choice of making a lot of money selling premium hardware that people bought every couple of years or so vs. selling them a service that...
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Apple turns to services to increase revenue
’ll get to what Apple announced on Monday but first some context as to why its announcement of several new paid services is important to Apple’s bottom line. This post first appeared in the Mercury...
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5G is coming but should you care?
By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Verizon announced that it’s rolling out its 5G super-fast cellular service in Minneapolis and Chicago, with about 30 more cities to be...
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