2024 May Be the Year of Extended Reality
XR, short for “extended reality” includes not just video images that take up your entire field of view, but augmented reality, or mixed reality, that combines computer-generated images with the ...
Parenting and Working While Sheltering at Home
A blog post by Larry Magid and a podcast with Larry and ConnectSafely education director, Kerry Gallagher about working from home while your kids are at home engaged in home-based ...
Tools to Help Identify Real Vs. False Online Information
by Larry Magid Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited as once saying “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” but we now live at a time ...
Comcast Expands Access and Increases Speed of Internet Essentials Due to Coronavirus
A lot of communities are closing schools and, of course, many of those workers who can are now working from home. This makes a lot of sense, but there are ...
TikTok to Give Parents More Control Over Teen Accounts
TikTok is adding a Family Safety Mode to give parents more control over their teen's account ...
Research Finds Teens May Not Be Suffering From Too Much Tech use
One of the most important observations of the study is that "Policies restricting adolescents’ access to new technologies ... may be ill advised ...
AI, Cyberbullying Hot Topics at Safety Conference
I’m on my way to Washington, D.C., for the Family Online Safety Institute’s (FOSI) annual conference. I have attended almost all of these events ...
CNET Cheapskate Mystery Box Raises Funds for ConnectSafely, Hunger Project & TAPS
Larry speaks with CNET and Cheapskate columnist Rick Broida, who has launched the Cheapskate Mystery Box 2019 Edition, a bundle of tech goodies from a variety of great companies ...
Data Refute President’s Linkage Between Violent Videogames & Mass Shootings
In his address to the nation following a weekend of two mass shootings, President Trump made a reference to violent video games, suggesting that these games may have something to ...
Overall Increase in Cyberbullying — Girls 3 Times More Likely To Be Cyberbullied Than Boys
The National Center for Educational Statistics is out with its 2016 to 2017 report on bullying at school. Overall, the bullying rate hasn’t changed much from 2014 to 2015 ...