David Pogue

NY Times "Crowdwise" columnist; writer/correspondent for NOVA & "CBS Sunday Morning"

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Dec. 27, 2020

Yes, there WAS good news coming out of 2020

Correspondent David Pogue reminds us of some of the often-overshadowed bright spots of the past year. 2020 will not be remembered as a big year for good news. But science and technology actually scored a few triumphs – beginning with the piece of…

Dec. 20, 2020

CBS News

Songs from the Young@Heart

You might expect people in their "golden years" to sing golden oldies. But there are no golden oldies in this group's repertoire – they just rock: The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" Meet the Young@Heart Chorus of Northampton, Massachusetts, founded in…

Dec. 13, 2020

CBS News

2020 gift ideas from Techno Claus

It's that time of year when our jolly old friend, Techno Claus (a.k.a. David Pogue), arrives via chimney with a selection of gift ideas for the tech lovers on your holiday list. Techno Claus enters from the fireplace, wearing a face mask (because…

Nov. 29, 2020

CBS News

COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs: What happens now?

Nov. 1, 2020

CBS News

Online chess makes its biggest move

The pandemic has reduced most professional sports to shadows of their former selves. But it's done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you'd ever guess: chess. "A boom is taking place in chess like we have never seen maybe since the Bobby…

Oct. 18, 2020

CBS News

For many climate change finally hits home

2020 has been a year of nonstop crises. For a while there, it was almost possible to forget an ongoing crisis that used to have our attention: climate change. But Nature found a way to remind us. In the Midwest, punishing 100-mile-per-hour winds. In…

Oct. 11, 2020

CBS News

Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff

Last summer, fourth-generation California farmer Dave Alford showed correspondent David Pogue around his 2004 John Deere tractor. "Oh, man, it's like a 747 cockpit over here!" Pogue laughed. "Not your grandfather's tractor!" But it was this tractor…

Aug. 25, 2020

Medium

Inside Fitbit’s Plan to Detect Covid Symptoms With a New Wearable

The main reason the coronavirus has shut down society isn’t that it’s deadly; it’s that it’s invisible. If you could see the damn particles — as a neon-yellow cloud on someone’s breath, or a neon-yellow patch on a doorknob — you could avoid it, and…

Jun. 30, 2020

New York Times

Watch TV, Free

Syfy Cord-cutting was supposed to save money. But these days, just as people are watching more, they’re paying for streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus. Added together, those six cost at…

Jun. 27, 2020

Medium

“Design is Not Appearance:” My Interview with Milton Glaser

David Pogue (right) interviews Milton Glaser for “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2019.He created “the look of the 60s”—and at 90, he floored me with his insights on design, work, and human nature.Milton Glaser died yesterday on his 91st birthday. He was a…

Jun. 4, 2020

Wired

How to Make Your Virtual Jam Session Sound—and Look—Good

You know those videos of musicians rocking out from their living rooms, laid out in a grid? Here's how they're made. For most performers, social distancing means stopping. No more concerts or comedy clubs, no more plays or musicals. How weird, then,…

May. 31, 2020

CBS News

Hear all about it: The rise in audiobooks

Smartphones and digital downloads have helped make audio recordings of books a billion-dollar industry, with more than 45,000 new audiobooks recorded last year alone. Correspondent David Pogue talks with actors Laurence Fishburne, Jesse Eisenberg and…

May. 4, 2020

New York Times

Dogs in Chernobyl and Sheep in Scotland: Sampling Airbnb’s Online Experiences

In the Great Lockdown, two-way video has become our primary social channel. Meetings, parties, concerts, music lessons, exercise classes: Any interactions that can be adapted to a Zoom video call, have been. Surely there’s nothing left to be…

May. 3, 2020

CBS News

"Sunday Morning" presents quarantine videos with their very own awards - the Sunnys!

"Sunday Morning" honors the very best self-isolating performers with an award show all their own ... and here's your host, David Pogue: Good morning, and welcome to the first-ever Sunny Awards! [Fake applause!] As you know, being a performing artist…

Apr. 19, 2020

CBS News

On the trail of COVID-19: Contact tracing the virus

When we talk about fighting the COVID-19 virus, we hear a lot about social distancing, self-isolation and vaccines. What's weird is that you don't hear much about another incredibly important tool in fighting epidemics: contact tracing. It means…

Apr. 5, 2020

CBS News

With more working from home, our Internet undergoes a stress test

Like almost everyone else in America, corporate events producer Mark Felix has been working from home lately. It hasn't exactly been smooth sailing. "This is week three, although it seems like week 33," he said. "And the last week my internet has…

Mar. 29, 2020

CBS News

How to live AND work at home without going stir crazy

Testing, 1, 2, 3. … OK! Welcome to lockdown! Like anyone else who's got the luxury of working at home, I'd been working at home when I got a call from my producer David Rothman. As I recall, the conversation went something like this… Pogue: "Do you…

Mar. 22, 2020

CBS News

Coronavirus and the contagion of fear

Julie Beitman has been correspondent David Pogue's friend and neighbor for over 15 years. But he's never seen her like this – repeatedly washing her hands, or wiping down her counter. "I'm very upset about this," Beitman said. "I'm upset. I watch the…

Jan. 26, 2020

CBS News

Is there a science behind creating pop hits?

When you win a Grammy, the judges tell you that your song or your album was the best of the year. But they don't tell you why. They don't tell you what they liked about it. But surely there's a science to writing a hit song? David Pogue went on a…

Dec. 22, 2019

CBS News

How the crowdsourcing website GoFundMe is changing charity

Morgan Stickney, of Bedford, New Hampshire, has always been something of a mermaid. By age 14, she had a room full of swimming medals. Ranked top 20 in the country, she was dreaming of the Olympics. But one day in eighth grade, her entire life…