8+ hour, 11+ min ago  (235+ words) 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 for Health Statistics. That means the family phone, which was omnipresent in homes when I was young, has largely…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1020+ words) Matt Shumer's home computer setup is a little weirder than most. He and his roommate each have a mini Apple computer in the kitchen, both devices silently toiling away in the background. All Shumer has to do is give the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (527+ words) In the spring of 1977, Pete Carey walked into Apple's new office expecting to see the future. Instead, he saw filing cabinets. "There were filing cabinets everywhere," recalled Carey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Mercury News who was there to…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (743+ words) This past Tuesday, Apple announced some new i Phones along with new versions of the Apple Watch and Air Pods earbuds. Most of the new i Phone models look pretty similar to existing ones, but there is a new i…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (250+ words) Last week's column covered the new i OS 26 operating system for i Phone, which comes with some nifty new features. But even before this version came out, i OS had some very handy features that a lot of people may…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1797+ words) By Mark Gurman, Bloomberg Apple Inc. is plotting its artificial intelligence comeback with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a lifelike version of Siri, a smart speaker with a display and home-security cameras. A tabletop robot that serves…...