nic nguyen
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@wsj personal tech columnist / [email protected] / dms open / nic.ngu on threads
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Joined October 2008
🆕 Earlier this year, @joannastern and I reported on how thieves stole iPhones and their passcodes to devastating effect. Today, Apple announced Stolen Device Protection, a new iOS 17.3 beta feature that aims to protect against those crimes. Here’s how:
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When your iPhone isn’t in a familiar location, Stolen Device Protection can prevent thieves from making critical changes to your Apple account.
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🆕 The iPhone + iMessage aren't designed for travel eSIMs. Disabling Data Roaming isn't enough to avoid charges on your main line. Ideally, you'd shut the whole thing OFF. But you need it ON to use iMessage with your home #. More tips:
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RT @JoannaStern: Sat down this morning with Apple executives and asked them about the Siri delays, the future of AI and more. Here's the….
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RT @JoannaStern: It’s here, the premiere of My Robot & Me — an AI film about our obsession with efficiency. Every frame made by @googlede….
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RT @WSJ: Even if you've never used a chatbot before, columnist @nicnguyen's tips to using AI at work will help you:. •Brainstorm ideas.•Pro….
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🆕 I tried the Google Meet live speech translator just announced at #GoogleIO — watch my Spanish alter ego blab away:
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RT @WSJ: Columnist @nicnguyen discovered that her SSN is on the dark web. Here’s what she’s doing about it—and how you can find out if your….
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Lock down your finances and online accounts after your information turns up in the secret corners of the internet.
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RT @WSJ: Here’s what happened when WSJ personal tech columnist @nicnguyen got a burner number to ward off texts filling up her main line: 🔗….
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RT @WSJ: It’s 2025, and generative AI is only getting bigger. If you’ve been too intimidated to get into the chatbot game, @nicnguyen has t….
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It’s 2025, and generative AI is only getting bigger. If you’ve been too intimidated to get into the game, now’s your chance.
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RT @bykevinclark: My wife, Emily Glazer, just won the Pulitzer Prize. I’ve known this was going to happen since the day I met her. She is t….
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RT @WSJPodcasts: We want to hear from you!👂. Tech News Briefing's series "Chatbot Confidential" dug into privacy risks when using gen AI ch….
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RT @WSJPodcasts: Who owns the data you submit to gen AI chatbots when prompting them? One expert says, not you. 🎧 Listen to Tech News Brie….
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RT @WSJ: The $999 M4 MacBook Air is the almost-everybody laptop, with a faster chip, a better webcam and double the RAM—but you might run o….
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A worthwhile upgrade to Apple’s almost-everybody laptop comes at an almost-everybody price tag.
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if this isn’t a new mini, i’m not interested.
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🆕 Next week, an iPhone software update will turn AirPods Pro 2 into hearing aids. It's the hearing *test* though, that is the potential game-changer. Some will discover, for the first time, that they have hearing issues. From their couch.
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Apple’s new clinical-grade diagnostics and hearing assistance are potential life changers. You just need to find them.
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i first started wearing an oura ring to help with sleep. then as hormone-free birth control. then to help me get pregnant. then i had a baby which has wrecked my sleep again. what a business model.
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The best health tracker is the one you don’t take off.
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why avoid the inevitable? @JoannaStern left her iphone 16 review up to AI.
Every year I review the iPhone. But NOT this year. This year Joannabot has taken over the job. Seriously! We fed my #iPhone16 test notes and 10 years of my iPhone reviews to a generative AI bot. And it’s pretty… great?! . Come ask it questions about my testing of the iPhone
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there are approx. a gazillion wireless bluetooth bud options out there (scientific) and i always recommend several, incl. sony linkbuds s. but 9.5/10 people choose airpods. the apple ecosystem pull is so strong.
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several people in my life—earwax overproducers who shall not be named—are very excited about active noise cancellation in earbuds without tips. airpods 4 w/ ANC review:
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