Amazing! Oxy-Iso Glasses Cure Red-Green Colorblindness

These two photos look identical to me. This isn’t about computers, but indulge me for a moment. This is extraordinary technology and might be as important for some of you as it is for me. Eight percent of men are red-green colorblind. (Almost no women. It’s a genetic...

Our Changing Tech World

Think you’re keeping up with the tech industry? Here are two recent reports that took me by surprise. Android is crushing everything in its path. In the first quarter of 2013, Android smartphones had a 75% market share. Apple’s iOS came in at a distant second place,...

DNSChanger Malware And Internet Doomsday

Lock the doors! Hide the children in the root cellar! Stock up on canned food! DNSChanger is coming and it’s Internet Doomsday! If you see any of this coverage – which is now distressingly widespread – you’d be forgiven for thinking that this is actually...

Google News Badges And The Decline Of Western Civilization

When I opened Google News today, I was greeted by this screen, asking me to “collect private badges for [my] favorite topics”: Here’s the way it was described in the Google Blog: “On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics...

Tech Tips And Tricks From David Pogue

Everyone might get something useful out of David Pogue’s column today for the New York Times, a collection of tips and tricks for cellphones and computers. Some of them are basic, some won’t apply, but I’ll bet you find a pearl or two that give you an “A Ha!” moment....