Avoid Scams Targeting Seniors with GrandPad

Older adults are often the targets of scams that attempt to steal money and private identity information. Find out what the top 5 cons and hoaxes are focusing on older adults from a former FBI agent, and how an advanced tech company called GrandPad has created a secure tablet specifically designed to protect seniors on the internet.

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Steven Johnson

What are the most important innovations that helped create the modern world? Writer Steven Johnson discusses his book and PBS special “How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World” and describes our tremendous leaps forward over the past several decades.

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Barbara Beskind

Barbara Beskind

Every time she goes to work, Barbara Beskind, 90, smashes the stereotypes of aging. Find out how the conceptual designer’s new job in Silicon Valley is not only having an impact on her young co-workers but on her fellow retirement home residents, too

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Thomas Frey

Futurist Thomas Frey weighs in on mankind’s future, including such hot button topics like our prison system and why Earth may not be our only homebase.

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Nolan Bushnell

Inventor and entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell approaches each day like a puzzle — what will he solve today? The father of video games and the man who gave Steve Jobs his first job explains why, at 70, he still looks at the world through 14-year-old eyes.

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97 Years of Saving Lives

At the time, it was a simple, selfless act. Seventy years later, it’s responsible for saving countless lives. It was just one incident in the long, rewarding life of Dr. Norman Wall, one of the most compelling, relevant 97-year-olds in the world.

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Dig Into Your Family’s Roots

Millions of people around the world are tapping into the Internet and technology to climb higher into their family trees. With billions of ancestry records now available online, see how people are unlocking mysteries about their families.

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Come Play With Us!

From fast cars to talking water — yes, you read that right — we’re showing you the coolest new games and rides at the annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions expo. You won’t see this stuff anywhere else … yet!

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Lance Ulanoff

Could you imagine reading for the next 501 years? Could you imagine living without your high-tech gadgets? Well, if you answered ‘No’ to both questions, you may have a problem. But PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff may have an answer.

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Bait is Big Business

Howard’s Bait & Tackle Shop stands as an unchanging landmark in an area surrounded by development. See how in a time when high-tech rules, a very low-tech, small business turned out to be a big part of a community.

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