Stories by David Pogue

Your digital screen has more pixels than ever, but all that visual detail comes at a cost

Online privacy and service agreements should sound like what they mean

The fear of lawsuits will prevent online companies from using your content as they please

Many of Apple's skeuomorphic design elements look about as classy as fake wood paneling on a station wagon

Why digital design doesn't have to imitate the physical world

Why personal computers still need the keyboard and mouse, despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill them off

Microsoft's new operating system comes in three versions and runs two different kinds of programs. Here's our guide to keeping it straight

Forget voice control or gesture recognition: gadgets may soon link directly to our brains

From toys to mind monitoring, brain-computer interface options are already on the market

A guy stole my iPhone. I tracked it and posted his address online. Was that wrong?

Want to save money and prevent power outages? Get your thermostat a digital remote control

The death of the DVD is pushing users to piracy

Speech-recognition software is great—unless you're trying to use it on a phone

Outdated screening rules aren't making for safer skies—just longer lines

From the best seat to fastest tracking, tech tools to help smooth your trip--before takeoff or as soon as you're allowed to use your approved electronic device

And other proclamations that should be in a cell phone user's Bill of Rights

Cut out the ridiculous instructions and take back the beep

Inside information from the bigwigs of the wireless world

Impossible connections, dropped signals, phantom networks—why wireless Internet still seems stuck in the Stone Age

Make buying, voting and losing weight easier by blasting away unnecessary steps

Leading companies that have found ways to make easier access work well for you--and for them

How the bot-proofing of the Internet is bringing humans down

Programmers hope that humans can jump through these hoops better than bots