Articles tagged "computers"

The ISS astronauts have more important things to worry about than the blue screen of death.

This is the next step towards some really cool consumer electronics. Or robo-dominion. Either way.

Your DNA-powered iPod could hold something like a bajillion songs.

Silly hijinks aside, the episode does illustrate something really important about the differences between computers and humans.

That is, if the idea of putting microchips in our brains doesn't scare everyone off first.

Ever get kind of nostalgic when you head home for the holidays and decide to fire up the old Packard Bell to see if it’s still kicking? Maybe play a game or two of Skifree or load up Encarta ‘95 to learn some stuff about the world? Well, that’s more…

What's in a nerdy name?

By their very nature, microchips are little bitty things, but scientists wants to make them downright invisible – and they’re getting pretty close!

You plug your Personal Energy Orb into a computer, and it launches a ticker that monitors how long you've been in front of the screen. As the PEO loses power, it slows down the responsiveness of your CPU, until it becomes unbearable. So, to recharge

Bill Moggridge, inventor of the laptop "clamshell" design passed away Saturday. His invention defined the portable computer, and his vision of the computer as an interactive device changed how people live.

Few people think about what's happening on the other end of the cord to keep their Internet alive. Among other things is a vast network of data centers that quite literally contain the all of the files that constitute the billions of web pages, mobil…

The very term "mainframe computers" brings to mind data scientists in lab coats shuffling punch cards and smoking cigarettes, but don't let that get to you. Despite decades of technology evangelists calling for the death of the ancient mainframe mach…

Compared to crimes like murder and rape, hacking seems like a relatively minor offense. After all, some geek snooping around on the Internet doesn't really hurt anyone. Sometimes they deface websites. Sometimes they steal credit card numbers. Sometim…

Having opened its largest retail outlets ever to overzealous shoppers in Shanghai and Beijing last Fall, hiring geniuses and clerks galore, Apple's presence in China has quite expectedly boomed. Like "Krispy Kreme":http://news.google.com/newspapers?i…

The last thing I wrote out in handwriting for another human was I don't know. I've filled out some forms pretty recently, yes, and it took a lot of effort and, on some occasions, multiple tries to produce something legible, even just an address and s…

On February 1, 1972, Hewlett Packard introduced the world's first scientific pocket calculator, the HP-35. You may be thinking, really, who cares but a bunch of geeks. That's exactly what the marketing people at HP thought when Bill Hewlett released

Apple and other famous technology companies and their millions of customers don't have blood on their hands. Well, maybe. After reading a piece by Nick Kristof in the Times last year - ""Death by Gadget"":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion…

As far as the corporate lobbyists in Washington are concerned, the spectacularly reckless anti-piracy measures being introduced under "SOPA and PROTECT-IP":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/11/17/the-internet-is-fighting-hollywood-s-blacklist-bill-by-…

IBM's Watson computer won Jeopardy last night against its two most successful human players. While Watson cooled off underneath the special Jeopardy stage IBM built for the purpose of showing off their storied new brand name, the audience could be he…