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The User Experience Confounds Cooks, Drivers, and TV Viewers

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Grabbing the wrong device, tapping the highly sensitive wrong button and trying to figure out how to back up – that’s viewing life. See 2024 Market Overview, Technology for Aging ] category tags: Television/Smart TV , smart home , vehicle/transportation technology-services Voice control – does that fix everything?

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Getting Older Adults to Tech Parity in 2021

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The pandemic grabbed the attention of tech developers worldwide. category tags: computers, internet and social networking. Not only did it worsen the lives through social isolation and loneliness – but it precipitated poorer health outcomes for those living alone, especially those avoiding visits to the doctor.

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Robocalls and scams -- a phone-based war against us all

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Or scammers grabbing that 'send a text message identifier' used to confirm a financial transaction. . category tags: cell phones, smartphones , fraud protection. New scams appear and can be especially devastating – like the cell phone port-out scam (saying your phone was stolen and needs to be 'ported' to another device.)

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