COMPUTERS

Receiving a simple text message can freeze your Messages app. Here's how to fix it.

Don't let spring cleaning pass you by.

Don’t simply dump the old model in the trash—use one of these methods to resell or recycle.

Classrooms didn't have computer monitors when the game debuted in 1971, so kids had to use more of their imagination when shooting deer or succumbing to typhoid fever.

In 2008, the popular arcade game started malfunctioning. The company blamed a rogue programmer. He insisted they were digging in the wrong hole.

There are only between 20 and 100 of these early computers left in the world, and you could own a functioning one (for $55,000).

Believers: Click at your own risk.

Authors have stopped turning to the natural world for size comparisons and started referring to sports.

After his 2003 arrest for marijuana possession, a lot of newspaper headlines had the same pun ready: "Dude, you're getting a cell."

The home computer typing tutor was such a hit that she kept getting invited for speaking engagements and interviews. Too bad she wasn't real.

Kano's motion-sensor kit lets you make your own computer apps that respond to real-world movement.

His skills have earned him $10,000 in prize money.