Google has been adding AI features to Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Search, Android, and Gemini. Some of those features are handy. Some are creepy-feeling. Some are both at the same time, which is pretty much the official motto of modern technology.
Buying a new computer used to be relatively simple. You bought a computer. Now you walk into a store — or, more likely, open a website — and you're confronted with desktops, all-in-ones, laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, tablets, 2-in-1s and phones powerful enough to do things that required an entire office full of equipment 25 years ago.
A reader recently ran into a fake “PC App Store” page while trying to download Adobe Reader. The name sounded official enough to make anyone pause. After all, most of us have heard the term PC for years. But what does PC actually mean? Does it mean any computer?Does it mean a Windows computer?Is a … Continue reading What Does “PC” Even Mean Anymore?
Phone Might Not Be Old — It Might Just Be Overwhelmed
Most people have a will. Some people have life insurance. Many have folders full of paperwork. But millions of people have something just as valuable and rarely planned for: Their digital life.
If you’re wrestling with the question of whether to ban social media entirely — or allow it with supervision — you’re not alone.
You’re navigating Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, group chats, private messages, disappearing messages, livestreams, and a whole digital universe that didn’t exist when most of us were teenagers.
If you’ve felt like the word “AI” is following you around, you’re not wrong. It’s in the news, your apps, your car, your TV, and probably somewhere in your toaster’s marketing copy.
Here are 7 things many people do every day that quietly shorten device lifespans, create security holes, or just make your gadgets cranky. And more importantly: how to fix them.
The other day, a reader wrote to me with what sounds like a simple question: “Can you please tell me how to transfer pictures from my phone to a flash drive? I have an Apple iPhone 8.”