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Everything You Need to Know About the iPhone 7
No More Headphone Jack? The first thing that I want to get out of the way is all the hype about Apple killing the headphone jack. If you’ve seen anything in the news about the new iPhone, it is...
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How to Protect Yourself in Light of the Yahoo Hack
Last week (9/22/2016), Yahoo announced that, in 2014, hackers made off with over 500 million users account information. This included names, email address, telephone numbers, birthdates, security...
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The Fascinating History of Tetris
Box Brown is an Ignatz Award winning graphic novelist and cartoonist. This week, Tech Talker interviews Brown on his upcoming release of the book Tetris: The Games People Play. This tale chronicles...
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How to Start a Podcast
This week, I’m going to show you how to start your very own podcast. I'm sure I don’t need me to explain exactly what a podcast is, but on the off chance you need a refresher, a podcast is basically a...
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4 Puzzling Technology Questions
Over the years I’ve fielded hundreds, if not thousands, of questions from listeners, family members, and friends. A lot of these questions make there way into the podcasts, but some of them aren't long...
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From Audiobooks to Art Lessons—5 Fun, Digital Activities for Kids
When summer vacation finally arrives, our families are ready for a relaxing stretch of fun in the sun, easy-breezy beach days, and spending as much time as possible in the great outdoors. There are...
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How Smart Is Your Smartwatch?
Cool devices like the Apple Watch, Fitbit, and the nearly ubiquitous Garmin Forerunners (at my local running group anyway) aim to track your biometrics, like heart rate, and calories burned, along with...
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The End of Net Neutrality: What It Means For Science (and You)
How would you describe the internet to someone from, say, the 18th century? Nearly 4 billion internet users, half of which are in Asia, access everyday what amounts to an accumulation of all of human...
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Dictionary.com Starts Defining Emoji
Dictionary.com has started defining emoji. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of my interview with Jane Solomon, lexicographer at Dictionary.com. Solomon: One thing as lexicographers that we...
View ArticleThe 7 Key Ingredients to Apple's Design Success
This book is about my fifteen years at Apple, my efforts to make great software while I was there, and the stories and observations I want to relate about those times. If you want to know what it was...
View Article5 Tips to Protect Your Smart Home From Hackers
These days, most people have at least some smart home gadgets in their house. Some professionals are also starting to fill up their offices with internet-connected devices. While these products can...
View ArticleHow to Bullet-Proof Your Online Privacy
When you imagine hackers and identity thieves violating your privacy, you might think of a pallid, 20-something hacker in a dark basement, wearing a hoodie, gulping Red Bull by the gallon, typing...
View ArticleMake the Most of Your Online Reading With a Learning Plan
Think that you should read that well-written, high-quality article your friend just shared on social media? Think again. It might be a huge waste of time. Rather than reading any interesting article...
View Article10 Ways Autonomous Driving Could Revolutionize Our World
Researchers project that by 2035 automakers will sell 12 million fully-autonomous vehicles globally. Another 18 million semi-autonomous cars are also part of the projection on the same timeframe. Based...
View ArticleWorking at the Intersection of Liberal Arts and Technology
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 in 2011, he showed a slide of a street sign indicating the intersection of liberal arts and technology. To Steve, working at this meeting point, building humanity...
View ArticleFour Cybersecurity Myths Setting You up for Attack
Most people don’t know much about cybersecurity—but they don’t realize they have a knowledge gap. You use computers and mobile tech all day long, and you use them proficiently. But just because you can...
View ArticleHow Technology Has Shaped the On-Demand Economy
You might have heard about on-demand services, which involve connecting workers to customers to do tasks as needed. Usually, the workers are engaged only temporarily. The arrangement is beneficial for...
View ArticleHow To Get Into A Tech Career Successfully
It is no secret that the technology sector offers high-paying, lucrative, and flexible career opportunities. After all, these positions offer an enticing work-life balance, career growth, and...
View Article5 Ways to Actually Make Money Online
You're scrolling through Facebook when you see an ad about how you can make thousands of dollars online from home. You probably wince and think there's no way it's anything but a scam. While the claims...
View ArticleTop 5 Tips to Extend Your Laptop's Life
More and more often, computer users are opting to use laptops over desktops. Laptops are portable, full computers (as opposed to mobile operating systems like the ones you'll find on tablets), and they...
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