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A new analysis of thousands of books finds that bestselling titles from the last few decades contain fewer strongly positive or negative words than older works such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

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At just $2687, Asimov found the TRS-80 "surprisingly affordable!" His face becoming a familiar sight to more than 30 million Americans browsing the latest and greatest products in Radio Shack's catalogs.

Just over a year ago, Macworld magazine stopped printing new issues. Its run was epic, starting in 1984 with the launch of the Mac and running for more than 30 years.

Today's installment of "computers can be dumb."

In this video from the Computer History Museum, Steve Jobs gives an early presentation about Apple.

(From left to right) Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, and Michael Dorn in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).

Universal translators, tablet computer, and these other gadgets arrived even sooner than Star Trek's writers imagined.

Computer Show hosts from 1983 encounter guests from 2015. Hilarity ensues. ("Wait, let's go back to this...'web-site'?")

"Clouds" might be the catchiest noise Windows 95 ever made.

A 15-year-old programmer from Illinois used her tech skills to help stop internet harassment.

Microsoft felt the need to train people on how to conduct a party in their own homes.

45 landmarks in 14 days. Doable, just as long you don't stop to sleep.

Remember how scared we were of satanic cults, Y2K, and nuclear war? (Okay, we're still scared of nuclear war.)

A bankable director is more important than a popular star, a new study finds.

Image Courtesy of SCHI LAB, University of Sussex, © 2015

Soon, you might be able to understand how someone far away feels just by reaching out your palm.

Photoshop's creator demos the 1990 release using a photo of his wife on the beach.

Suzanne Vega's a cappella track helped make the MP3...but what was lost in the process?

Mind reading used to belong to the realms of sci-fi books and comic strips. But in 2011, a team of scientists from UC Berkeley discovered a way to construct YouTube videos from a viewer’s brain activity.