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Author: Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY

Tech

Could wearables like Apple Watch, Fitbit fitness trackers help detect coronavirus?

April 3, 2020 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Could wearables like Apple Watch, Fitbit fitness trackers help detect coronavirus?

While they can’t tell whether you’re infected with COVID-19, warnings, wearables are helping healthcare feed deployment decisions. Here’s how.

Tech

Working from home: Save on electricity by paying attention to greedy appliances

March 21, 2020March 24, 2020 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Working from home: Save on electricity by paying attention to greedy appliances

Anyone who pays attention to how much power their appliances draw, and how the electric company charges for it, can make money-saving adjustments.

Money

CES 2020: Powerful PC or responsive tablet? New laptops increasingly offer best of both

January 7, 2020 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on CES 2020: Powerful PC or responsive tablet? New laptops increasingly offer best of both

A new generation of laptops on display at CES are starting to make a case for offering what only our tablets have been able to deliver up until now.

Tech

Putting Wi-Fi 6 to the test: How fast can it speed up your home devices?

December 18, 2019December 31, 2019 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Putting Wi-Fi 6 to the test: How fast can it speed up your home devices?

You can have next-gen cellular-like responsiveness in the comfort of your own home with Wi-Fi 6.

Tech

Apple, Fitbit, Fossil, Samsung: How to choose the right smartwatch

October 14, 2019October 16, 2019 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Apple, Fitbit, Fossil, Samsung: How to choose the right smartwatch

Whether Apple Watch or Fitbit, the theme for this year’s crop of full-featured wearables is packing the latest tech into less pricey smartwatches.

Tech

Apple backs up privacy chest-beating with critical new feature

June 4, 2019 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Apple backs up privacy chest-beating with critical new feature

Apple showed at WWDC that it’s practicing what it’s preaching, with strong new privacy features woven in everywhere from the Mac to the Apple Watch.

Tech

Alexas, stop fighting! This house is big enough for more than one voice assistant

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Alexas, stop fighting! This house is big enough for more than one voice assistant

Live in a multi-device household? That can spell disaster when they all respond to the same command. But a solution appears to be on the horizon.

Tech

3 things you can do to start safeguarding your privacy online

March 4, 2019 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on 3 things you can do to start safeguarding your privacy online

Online privacy – or “digital trust,” in industry parlance – emerged as one of the broader themes at a recent mobile industry conference.

Tech

Sleep tech at CES aims to beat Vegas at its own game

January 9, 2019 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Sleep tech at CES aims to beat Vegas at its own game

Tech for sleep monitoring and enhancing is a growing area of digital health and wellness. Here’s a look at some 2019 Consumer Electronic Show offerings.

Tech

Is there a smarter smartwatch in your future?

November 12, 2018 Mike Feibus, Special for USA TODAY Comments Off on Is there a smarter smartwatch in your future?

Today’s devices are savvier about health, wellness and fitness. They’re also sleeker, smarter and run longer between charges.

Headlines

‘Big Hero 6’s San Fransokyo comes to life at Disneyland

August 31, 2023 Eve Chen, USA TODAY

Gadget guru or digitally distracted? Which of these 5 tech personalities are you?

August 31, 2023 Jennifer Jolly

U.S. Embassy urges Americans to leave Haiti ‘as soon as possible’

August 31, 2023 Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

PCE inflation report: Key measure ticks higher in July. What will the Fed do?

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023 Paul Davidson, USA TODAY

At 61, Meg Ryan is the lead in a new rom-com. That shouldn’t be such a rare thing.

August 31, 2023 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY

Velocity at what cost? MLB’s hardest throwers keep succumbing to Tommy John surgery

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY

Idalia makes history along Florida’s Big Bend, McConnell freezes again: 5 Things podcast

August 31, 2023 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY

Blue supermoon: See photos of the rare moon that won’t happen again until 2037

August 31, 2023 Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY

College professor harassed students to quench ‘clown fetish,’ offering extra credit, cash

August 31, 2023 Chris Quintana and Colin Campo, USA TODAY

5 people shot in Illinois, 2 in critical condition

August 31, 2023 AP
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