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Reading Time: 6 minutesLast month, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the Lane Tech College Prep High School to lay out his company’s plans to take over the education technology market. And the key to Apple-powered classrooms, Cook explained, was the iPad. Not just any iPad would do, though. Which is why…

Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to David Pogue’s Rated:App series. Each week, I install whatever is the No. 1 bestselling app on the iOS or Android store and review it, to save you the effort in case it’s a turkey! This week, the No. 1 most downloaded app on Android store, and No. 2 on iPhone,…

Reading Time: 9 minutesYou’ve probably been using computer mice for over 30 years (or for as much of 30 years as you’ve been alive). So it might come as something of a shock to learn that, as Steve Jobs might have said, you’re holding it wrong. That, at least, is the opinion of many ergonomic…

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew York Mets’ Adrian Gonzalez its an RBI double during the fifth inning of an opening day baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) More Hope springs anew for baseball fans on opening day — unless your home team still expects…

Reading Time: 8 minutesSpring 2018 is looking like it could one heck of season for gamers. More Ah, spring! The bees are buzzing, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and the gamers are…still pretty much staring at their screens. Can you blame us? The weather might be improving, but so are the games.…

Reading Time: 8 minutesSpring 2018 is looking like it could one heck of season for gamers. More Ah, spring! The bees are buzzing, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and the gamers are…still pretty much staring at their screens. Can you blame us? The weather might be improving, but so are the games.…

Reading Time: 6 minutes‘Far Cry 5’ is a chaotic blast through the American West. More The “Far Cry” series is known for dropping players into huge, open-world settings and letting them sew chaos and destruction as they take on each title’s menacing villain. But those settings and enemies have always been based in largely poor,…

Reading Time: 3 minutesApple’s new iPad looks the same as last year’s model, but packs a lot more power. More Apple’s (AAPL) newest iPad is here and it’s, well, a lot like the last one. The iPad 9.7-inch, which the tech giant unveiled at a big event at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago…

Reading Time: 8 minutesIt’s tough being a fitness-tracker maker. Nike, Jawbone, and Microsoft all abandoned the market entirely. Fitbit soldiers on, but it hasn’t been easy. It’s not that people have stopped caring about their health. It’s that little by little, smartwatches have been eating fitness bands’ lunch. So Fitbit Inc. (FIT) figured: “Well, we…

Reading Time: 1 minuteElon Musk’s The Boring Company is indeed living up to its namesake and boring tunnels, but its primary source of revenue still seems to be selling stuff branded with its logo. First there was the hat, then the ’not a flamethrower,‘ and now Musk has said that the company will produce and…

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter an Ars Technica report that Facebook surreptitiously scrapes call and text message data from Android phones and has done so for years, the scandal-burdened company has responded that it only collects that information from users who have given permission. Facebook’s public statement, posted on its press site, comes a couple of…

Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has taken out a full page ad in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and six UK papers today to apologize Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter. The ad starts in bold letters, saying: „We have a responsibility to protect your…

Reading Time: 4 minutesFacebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first public statements on Wednesday following revelations that the profile information of 50 million users was used without their knowledge or consent as part of a targeted advertising campaign to elect Donald Trump. But instead of speaking to the press, or even hosting a Facebook…

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Game Developers Conference runs from March 19 to March 23 and lays out the industry’s plans for the year. More It might lack the headline-grabbing software bonanza of a consumer-oriented event like E3, but when it comes to the business of games, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the most important…

Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to Pogue’s Rated:App series. Each week, I’ll install whatever is the No. 1 bestselling app on the iOS or Android store and review it, to save you the effort in case it’s a turkey! This week, the No. 1 bestselling app on the iPhone app store, and the No. 2 app…