by Michael Bailey | Mar 30, 2017 | Privacy and Security
By Eric Limer Courtesy of Popular Mechanics All your private online data—the websites you visit, the content of your chats and emails, your health info, and your location—just became suddenly less secure. Not because of hackers, but because Congress just blocked...
by Michael Bailey | Mar 29, 2017 | Privacy and Security
By TOM WHEELER On Tuesday afternoon, while most people were focused on the latest news from the House Intelligence Committee, the House quietly voted to undo rules that keep internet service providers — the companies like Comcast, Verizon and Charter that you pay for...
by Michael Bailey | Mar 27, 2017 | Privacy and Security
Tech Tip By J. D. BIERSDORFER Q. I sometimes get obviously fake virus alerts invading my desktop browser, but the only option to make the box go away is to click the O.K. button — which I am afraid to do. Where do these things come from, and is there an easier way to...
by Michael Bailey | Mar 19, 2017 | Technology
By CHRISTOPHER MELE Looking to buy a new television? You’ll face an alphabet soup of terms like 4K, H.D.R. and O.L.E.D. but you don’t have to be fluent in tech-speak to get a television that is right for your needs and budget. Should you buy now or wait? Consider...
by Michael Bailey | Feb 22, 2017 | Social Media, Technology
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART I spent last week ignoring President Trump. Although I am ordinarily a politics junkie, I didn’t read, watch or listen to a single story about anything having to do with our 45th president. What I missed, by many accounts, was one of the...
