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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Bits: Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: The Herd Mentality of Tech C.E.O.s

If one company has a small success, the others pile on, and you get “30 different versions of some dumb wearable.” Also, meet Mike’s flower guy, Guy.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Tech Tip: Locating Missing Windows Features

If you can’t find the print-to-PDF option or other tools on your Windows 10 computer, you may have to enable them yourself.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tech Tip: Changing a Wi-Fi Network’s Name

Utility software for Apple’s AirPort base stations allows you to manage your home wireless network settings — and hide the network’s name from view.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Tech Tip: Shape-Shifting in Instagram

The service’s mobile app still offers its classic square shape for sharing pictures, but allows photos in the landscape and portrait formats as well.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Bits: Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Facebook’s Take on the News

Charges of bias at Facebook Trending; a bad week for tech companies; ride-hailing and the cities.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Tech Tip: Changing Android’s Default Apps

If you want to use something other than Google’s own Chrome browser as your go-to app, you can choose a different program.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Tech Tip: Adding More Fingerprints to iPhone Sensors

The Touch ID sensor that unlocks Apple’s mobile devices can obey more than one finger.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: The Technology We Love to Hate

Why it’s so hard to find a charging cable that lasts more than few months, and other gripes about tech.

Friday, May 6, 2016

Tech Tip: Keeping Current With Google Chrome

Google’s browser automatically updates the Adobe Flash plug-in for you, but you can check your version or disable Flash yourself.

In the Digital Age, Louis Vuitton puts tech to the test

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Moore’s Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor

Unsure how long chip memory can reliably be doubled, an engineering group plans to create a new forecasting system for semiconductor innovation.

Monday, May 2, 2016

Bits: Daily Report: New York Searches for Its Anchor Tech Company

Silicon Valley has a long list of big companies that have become the centerpiece of the local economy. The Big Apple is looking for that tech giant.

Tech Tip: Sharing Your Instagram Feed (or Not)

Instagram’s default settings make accounts public for the world to see, but you can choose to share your photos with only approved followers.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Bits: Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: The Unstoppable Facebook

The (relative) decline of Apple, the ascendance of Amazon and the continuing dominance of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: To Be or Not To Be an Uber Employee

The tentative Uber settlement leaves unresolved the dispute over the company’s practice of keeping its drivers as contractors instead of employees.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

The Week in Tech: The Next Big Thing, According to Mark Zuckerberg

Quentin Hardy fills in for Farhad Manjoo and joins Mike Isaac for a discussion of virtual reality and how Facebook is trying to get ahead of the pack.