COMPUTERS

Does Safely Ejecting From a USB Port Actually Do Anything?

Is your computer just being overly dramatic when it warns you not to just yank out your flash drive?

8 Things That Could Be Slowing Your Computer Down

Your sluggish laptop might just need a good cleaning.

Artificial Intelligence System Learns to Realistically Mimic Sounds

When researchers presented human volunteers with the computer-generated sounds, they were, for the most part, unable to distinguish them from real sounds

You Can Now Use Any Website as a Screensaver

See what's happening on your favorite site, even while your computer sleeps.

Selecting a New Social Media Password? Make It Better Than Mark Zuckerberg's

The Facebook CEO's security code was "dadada."

Study Suggests Screen Reading Makes Us Lose the Big Picture

Our comprehension seems to be better when we read from the printed page.

Watch This Trippy 1977 Apple II TV Ad

"The family can invent their own Pong games!"

This Marker-Wielding Robot Can Teach Kids How to Code

Root teaches students basic programming concepts early on.

A Blunder by CNBC Reminds Us to Keep Our Passwords Private

Here's what not to do to keep your information safe online.

Many of the predictions made about the internet in 1996 were wildly accurate—and also quite funny.

29 Prescient Quotes About the Internet from 1996

"Ten years from now, America Online will have gone the way of the water-bed store." -Bruce R. Burningham

How an Intern Developed Microsoft Solitaire

If you’ve ever spent hours procrastinating by playing Windows solitaire, you have a summer intern to thank.

A Hypnotic History of Screensavers

Jefferson Airplane thought they had the market cornered on flying toasters.

Computer Beats a Professional “Go” Player for the First Time

It's a major victory for artificial intelligence.

A 90-Year-Old Man Is Answering All of Life's Questions on Reddit

Roland John “Ron” Lehker's AMA forum is eliciting responses from Internet users across the world.

This $15 Computer Raised Over $1.5 Million on Kickstarter

Powerful computing for the price of lunch.

15 Secrets of Apple Store Employees

They see lots of naked pictures.

The PC of the Future...from 1996

"Will we add computing power to our TV sets, or...TV capability to our personal computers?"—Stewart Cheifet in 1996.

Pickering & Greatbatch via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Proof Victorian Novels Were Way More Sentimental

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’.

Cedorris, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0

Isaac Asimov, Radio Shack Pitchman

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.

5 Vintage Computing Moments from 'Macworld' Issue 1 (April 1984)

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.

Neural Network IDs Objects in the Star Trek: TNG Credits

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

Watch Steve Jobs Talk Apple in 1980

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

Advice on How to Take the Perfect Selfie, From a Convolutional Neural Network

Spoiler: Most people are already at a disadvantage.

The Perfect Password Is Six Words Long And Rhymes

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