A smart speaker plays music when you ask. A thermostat learns when you’re usually home. A camera sends an alert when it spots movement, and a watch records your steps and sleep. Each device can be useful on its own. Together, they can leave a detailed trail of your routines, interests, and whereabouts. The concern… Read More »Smart homes, hidden trails: a plain-English guide to Internet of Things privacy
The Best Tech Newsletters to Subscribe to in 2026 The better question isn't "which newsletter is the best?" It's "which newsletter is best for you?" That's the lens Greg Doig applies every week while putting together the Friday Tech Roundup at Tech Brewed. Greg has spent years sorting signal from noise in tech media, and… Read More »Top Tech Newsletters
A practical small-business cybersecurity checklist covering account access, backups, data portability, recovery testing, vendor risk, and what to do after an incident.
Photographer: Nabil Saleh | Source: Unsplash Quick Summary Nine PBS, a public TV station, lost access to decades of programming when its storage vendor shut down and stopped responding. The data was probably still there, but the station couldn’t access it due to a dispute over control. The incident uncovers a basic data backup –… Read More »Don’t Lose Your Data: A Plain‑English Guide for Small Businesses
Photographer: James McKinven | Source: Unsplash Your iPhone and Mac don’t usually get “slow” overnight. It’s almost always a pileup of small things: storage creeping toward full, too many background processes, browser clutter, or a battery that can’t deliver peak power like it used to. The good news: you can often get that “new device”… Read More »17 practical ways to speed up your iPhone and Mac (without buying new hardware)