When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Remembering passwords is just too hard. Some people “solve” the problem by using easy passwords, things like a pet’s name or partner’s birthday. Others memorize a single, long, complex password and ...

Create an rng object with np.random.default_rng(), you can seed it for reproducible results. You can draw samples from probability distributions, including from the binomial and normal distributions.

Shannon Henderson was happy to have made it to the store in time to purchase the last portable generator on the shelf as she was preparing for the predicted winter storm which is likely to arrive in ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...