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Moonrise Podcast Explores How We Can Return to the Moon

With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, there has been plenty of retrospectives and examinations on the impact of the space race and the lunar missions. In addition to a flood of books and documentaries, there are a handful of podcasts as well. One of those new podcasts is The Washington Post’s Moonrise, hosted by Lillian Cunningham.   Cunningham is the creator of a couple of other excellent […]

todayJuly 25, 2019

Tech Made Simple

The Simple Way to Convert Old VHS tapes Into Digital

There are countless ways to remind your family members that you love them. Preserving your home movies, entombed in rapidly-decaying VHS tapes, by converting them into digital files is a thoughtful (and often tear-jerking) way to do that. It’s one of those gifts that’s appropriate at any time in the year, whether you’re celebrating Father’s or Mother’s Day, a birthday, or any other occasion.   If you want to digitize […]

todayJuly 24, 2019

Tech Made Simple

How to Spot the Best Deals During Amazon Prime Day 2019

Amazon Prime Day 2019, the two-day shopping extravaganza held exclusively for Amazon Prime subscribers, starts Monday, July 15th at 12AM PT / 3AM ET, and ends on July 16th at 11:59PM PT / 2:59AM ET. There will be thousands of deals to check out across every product category on Amazon’s massive online storefront, and some of these discounts will be the best you’ll see until Black Friday. Part of Prime […]

todayJuly 15, 2019

Tech Made Simple

There’s an Earthquake. Did Your ShakeAlert App Warn You?

After the recent earthquake near Los Angeles, some residents were left wondering why their ShakeAlert LA app hadn’t notified them. After all, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Ridgecrest, California, about 150 miles away, and that quake was the first test of ShakeAlert since the app was released in 2018.  The system was working exactly as it was designed to, as the Los Angeles Times reported in the aftermath of the […]

todayJuly 9, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Fourth of July Tech Deals and Steals

Prices on tech tend to drop around each major US holiday, and with July 4th here, it's happening again.  These are the best deals that we’ve seen this week, courtesy The Verge. Phones Sony’s Xperia 1 is now available for preorder. The price is $949.99, which is admittedly not cheap for a phone, but if you order before July 12th, you’ll receive a free set of Sony’s 1000X M3 wireless […]

todayJuly 4, 2019

Health & Wellness

New York Allows Early Vaccination for Infants to Combat Measles Outbreaks

As the number of measles cases in the United States has surged, some officials are encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated sooner rather than later. Normally, kids would get their first measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine when they’re about a year old, but given the rise in cases, babies in areas with ongoing measles outbreaks may be able to get theirs earlier in an effort to keep some of […]

todayJune 5, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Apple announces All New Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR

The Verge reports that at WWDC 2019 on Monday, Apple announced its brand new Mac Pro, along with the Pro Display XDR display.   Having admitted that its glossy “trash can” Mac Pro of 2013 was a mistake, Apple has long promised that the next update to its most professional computer line would be a return to more modular, less thermally constrained computing. That was realized at WWDC 2019 with […]

todayJune 4, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Lost and Need to be Found? Use Google Maps!

Google Maps is great for helping you find your way — or even helping you find your car — but the app can also help other people find you.   Maps has an easily overlooked feature for sharing your real-time whereabouts with someone so they can see exactly where you are, even if you’re moving, and then navigate to your location. You can use the same feature to let a […]

todayMay 20, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Verizon’s 5G Network Hits a New Milestone

This week marks the release of Samsung’s $1,400 Galaxy S10 5G, which will briefly be a Verizon exclusive before moving to other carriers. And now that there’s a real, proper 5G phone on its network, Verizon has ramped things up. Coverage remains extremely limited: it varies widely and block by block.   But when you find a good spot, it’s amazing. Tester Chris Welch (@chriswelch) just reported on The Verge […]

todayMay 17, 2019

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