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As voters evaluate the two presidential candidates this year, it is fair to ask whether someone who never touches a computer can truly be in touch with what is happening in the world.

There are grim armies of violent, soulless but technically astounding computer games waiting to swallow you whole and spit you out a few weeks later, but there also are lots of games out there that...

A low-cost, easy-to-use piece of digital technology could make millions of people more productive in their everyday lives: the digital kitchen scale.

Equating computer circuits and brain synapses makes computers seem more complex and brains seem more simple than either are.

In 2006, "The Long Tail" made a splash arguing that the Internet, with its expansive shelf space, would mean a smaller role for mega-hit products. Now, a study suggests the Web is only cementing th...

New questions are being raised about an audacious legal strategy Amazon.com has used to avoid collecting sales tax in eight states where it has warehouses or distribution centers.

The problem with spam used to be all the messages sent to your mailbox. Now, it's all the legitimate messages being blocked by your anti-spam filter. Next time someone starts telling you about how ...

Along with the impossible requests for a bugless, instant Windows 7, Portals received hundreds of practical suggestions from readers about what they would like to see in Microsoft's next operating ...

While it's still at least two years away, Microsoft is already starting to talk up its Windows 7. Gates and Ballmer last week showed off some eye candy that might end up a part of Windows, but here...

Among food blogs, the cream of the crop is the "cook-through," in which someone picks a cookbook and then doesn't stop cooking and blogging until they've made all the dishes in it.