Sep 26, 2024
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News At its annual Meta Connect developers conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new $299 Quest 3S virtual reality headset, updates to Meta AI and a new version of its open-source Llama AI model. He also...
Sep 19, 2024
Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Read a post about the conference Machine Transcription: (subject to typographical errors from speech to text software) Larry Magid: I’m Larry Magid, and this is Are We Doing Tech Right, a podcast from ConnectSafely where we...
Sep 19, 2024
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I’ve been writing about tech from my perch in Silicon Valley since the early 80s, and when I went on the road, it was typically for tech conferences in places such as New York, Las Vegas, Austin and Berlin....
Jul 25, 2024
By Larry Magid First published in the Mercury-News I have mixed feelings about California’s AB 3216, “Pupils: use of smartphones.” The bipartisan bill, which Gov. Newsom has indicated he will sign, would require school districts to develop and adopt “a policy to limit...
Jun 20, 2024
By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Although I understand why Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy has called for a warning label on social media platforms, there are several reasons I think it’s a bad idea. To begin with, social media is vastly...
