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The term “cutting the cord” used to mean giving up your landline telephone altogether and relying completely on your cell
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Paul Croke, former newspaper editor and longtime Washington DC area freelance writer, has loved gadgets and consumer electronics since he saw his first Dick Tracy watch. He writes about consumer technology.
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Information Superhighway has no roadmap
Though I write regularly about the Internet and the various devices with which we access it for work, pleasure, staying
Read moreiPhone 6: Steve Jobs was wrong – bigger really is better
Despite the carping by critics that the new iPhones, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, were not groundbreaking
Read moreTexting Apps: What are the best choices?
When you get up in the morning did your alarm clock get you up? Or did the alarm on your
Read moreTechnological obsolescence can’t be overcome
Remember the phrase “planned obsolescence”? It was a business strategy that was employed by manufacturers to design and build into
Read moreProtect yourself from Internet wildlife
I bricked my phone. Rendered it completely and irrecoverably useless. How? Downloading from a fake app store a fake word
Read moreWhat is the Internet doing to our brains?
It used to be thought that the adult human brain was pretty much wired, or rather soldered, into place; that
Read moreVinyl vs. Digital: Low Fidelity in High Tech
“My goal is to try and rescue the art form that I’ve been practicing for the last 50 years,” Neil
Read moreWelcome to Quantum computing
The coldest place in the universe used to be a gaseous cloud called the Boomerang Nebula, 5,000 light years from
Read moreAI: Say Hello to the New Boss
The human brain is the single most complex structure in the universe. More complex than the fusion reactor which is
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