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by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been testing the iPhone 18 Pro Max, the larger version of the otherwise almost identical 18 Pro. […]

I started using my mom’s Royal manual typewriter when I was in elementary school and took a typing class in junior high, which turned out to be the most practical class I ever took. It […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News For many years, I was an avid fan of Google’s Pixel phone, which, in my opinion, is the best Android phone on the market. […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News and SiliconValley.com For the past few years, I’ve been using AT&T Fiber for my home internet, and it’s been nearly flawless. But, through no […]

In 1981 Information Unlimited Software (IUS) hired me to write the EasyWriter word processing manual that IBM would release with its first PC. After the PC was released, IUS asked me to write this computer buying guide.  […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News A recent article in Communications of the ACM, a magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery, warned that although AI tools can help smooth […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News   Almost everyone has a smart phone, but chances are it has more useful features than you know about. That’s not your fault. Today’s […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News By the end of 2024, 79% of adults and 87% of children lived in homes with wireless-only phone service, according to the National Center […]

by Larry Magid This June, soon-to-be former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposed that the United Kingdom ban children under 16 from accessing social media. If this happens, Britain would follow in the footsteps of […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Listen to “Chips that prolong battery life for small devices like smart glasses” on Spreaker. Larry interviews Bill Hoppin of FemtoAI about chips that […]