David Pogue, The New York Times

David Pogue

The New York Times

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Past:
  • The New York Times
  • AOL.com
  • Scientific American
  • Engadget
  • Cashay
  • Yahoo
  • HuffPost

Past articles by David:

I Spent a Weekend Bingeing Airbnb’s Virtual Experiences. Was it Worth It?

While the rest of the country was binge-watching, David Pogue went binge-experiencing, cramming seven virtual Airbnb courses into a single weekend. → Read More

Your Best Tips for Managing the Family Money

We asked you for tips on how you handle the household finances. Here are your best replies. → Read More

Your Best Tips for a Better Uber or Lyft Trip

When we asked you for your best tips for better ridesharing trips, dozens of drivers and fellow passengers replied. Here are the best tips we heard. → Read More

The Best Advice You’ve Ever Received (and Are Willing to Pass On)

We asked you for the best advice anyone’s ever given you, and how it made an impact on your life. Here’s what you said. → Read More

32 Tips for Surviving (and Parenting) Crying Babies on Planes

Flying with an unhappy child can make everyone miserable — the parents, other passengers, the child — but what can you do? Here are some of your best tips to help. → Read More

What to Say (and What Not to Say) to Someone Who’s Grieving

A little empathy goes a long way, especially when someone is recovering from the loss of a loved one. Unfortunately, even when some of us mean well, we make the situation worse. Here’s how to avoid it. → Read More

How to Handle the Dreaded ‘Reply All Moment’

You know that sinking feeling when you accidentally click "Reply All" instead of "Reply?" It's awful. Here's how to handle it, and make sure it never happens again. → Read More

Why you can't buy a Tesla in these states

Although Tesla is one of the most successful American auto startups, there are a few places in the U.S. where it is banned. → Read More

5G Devices Are about to Change Your Life

You’re probably used to the periodic upgrades in our cell-phone networks. There was 2G, which came along in 1991, replaced with 3G in 2001, followed by 4G in 2009. Now we’re hearing about the coming of 5G. But 5G is a much bigger leap than what’s come before. Qualcomm’s Web site, in fact, calls it “as transformative as the automobile and electricity.” (One of the world’s leading makers of… → Read More

Google's Duplex AI Scares Some People, but I Can't Wait for It to Become a Thing

Google's new assistant sounds almost scarily human → Read More

Automobile Dashboard Technology Is Simply Awful

New cars have amazing technology everywhere but the dashboard → Read More

The real story behind MoviePass's location-tracking controversy

MoviePass, a company only seven months old, seems to be on fire. It's like Netflix (NFLX), but for movie theaters: You pay $10 a month, and go out to see all the movies you want. (3D and Imax not included.) That deal is so good, they've already signed up close to 2.5 million subscribers, who already buy 6% of all movie tickets in the U.S.; the company expects to double those numbers by summer.… → Read More

The real story behind MoviePass's location-tracking controversy

By David Pogue MoviePass seems to be on fire these days. It's like Netflix (NFLX), but for movie theaters: You pay $10 a month, and go out to see all the movie... → Read More

Google Clips uses AI to snap pictures of your kids and pets — sort of

In its day, Google has produced some truly bizarre hardware products. Well, don’t look now, but here comes the company’s weirdest hardware yet: Google Clips ($250). It’s a tiny, thin camera, about the size of two stacked Triscuits, that combines elements of a spy camera, GoPro camera, and cellphone → Read More

Microsoft CEO talks about immigration, empathy, and cricket

This past Sunday, “CBS Sunday Morning” aired my profile of Satya Nadella, who’d worked at Microsoft for 25 years before being chosen to become the third CEO in Microsoft’s history. Nadella’s thoughtful, gentle personal style could not be more different from the brash, aggressive approaches of Bill Gates → Read More

Is Art Created by AI Really Art?

When AI creates compelling art, the meaning of creativity gets blurred → Read More

The tiny, 4K Mavic Air crushes other DJI drones

It’s so small and smart, it makes you wonder why anyone would buy the 2016 Mavic Pro, which costs $200 more — but it’s not what you’d call perfect. The new Mavic Pro is incredibly tiny, stable, and lightweight. The 15-ounce Mavic Air is small — and that’s huge. → Read More

How Good Is Star Trek 's Record at Predicting the Future of Tech?

In this month’s Scientific American column, I wrote about Hollywood’s depiction of personal technology in the future. Lots of it is pure wishful-thinking silliness. But sometimes, you can sense the thought that’s been put into these props, and inventors eventually create them for use in the real world. “Star Trek,” of course, was one of the most influential sci-fi shows of all time. Even the… → Read More

VICTOR sums up the trends that dominated CES 2018

The Consumer Electronics Show takes place in Las Vegas every January, perfectly timed to drain the joy out of the holidays for 170,000 people. The Consumer Electronics Show comes once a year, whether we like it or not. → Read More

How Well Do Movies Predict Our Tech Future?

Everyone judges the plausibility of a movie through a different lens. If you're a doctor, you may think: “That character would not have survived that fall.” If you're an astrophysicist: “That's not how black holes work.” And if you're me, it's more like: “What a dumb concept of future personal technology!” It makes me crazy when sci-fi moviemakers dream up stuff with no basis in science. Human… → Read More