4 Ways to Do More With Your Smartphone Camera
New York Times
Even if you don’t have the latest and greatest smartphone, the tools for your photography can go beyond the more commonly used ones like the portrait and lowlight modes[1]. With…
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Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters
Amazon helps Parler operate by hosting its web traffic on its servers, according to a group of Amazon employees[1]. Those employees and at least one member of Congress[2] have called…
How to Send a Recap of 2020 to Friends and Family
For many people, 2020 has been a disruptive, frustrating, heartbreaking and disorienting year. But as December winds down, it’s also an opportunity to take stock of the things that happened…
Amazon and Apple Shift From Intel's Chips, Driving Industry Change
SAN FRANCISCO — For close to a decade, supporters of the chip technology that powers mobile phones vowed to shake up the market for computers. For the most part, they…
Imagine a World Without Apps
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] Allow me to ask a wild question: What if we played games,…
How to Have a Fully Remote Family Thanksgiving
Because of the relentless pandemic[1], many people are staying home for Thanksgiving this year. No technology can ever fully replace an in-person holiday gathering. But it is possible to recreate…
Why the 5G Pushiness? Because $$$.
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] I find it helpful to look for the profit motives behind what’s…
The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone
In a new Apple ad, a man on a city bus announces he has just shopped for divorce lawyers. Then a woman recites her credit card number through a megaphone…
Election Tech That’s Super Simple
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] Friends, I love technology that is deceptively simple[2] and actually helpful[3] to…
Ignore Phone Companies About 5G
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] There might not be smartphones in billions of pockets today if the…
