David Pogue

David Welch Pogue born March 9 1963 is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning He has hosted 18 Nova specials on PBS including Nova ScienceNow the Making Stuff series in 2011 and 2013 and Hunting the Elements in 2012 Pogue has written or cowritten seven books in the For Dummies series and in 1999 he launched his own series of computer howto books called the Missing Manual series which now includes more than 100 titles He also wrote The World According to Twitter 2009 and Pogues Basics 2014 a New York Times bestseller In 2013 Pogue left The New York Times to join Yahoo where he would create a new consumertechnology Web site In 2018 he returned to the Times as the writer of the Crowdwise feature for the Smarter Living section