No! The author of "A Better Pencil" explains why such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself
By Vincent Rossmeier Sep 19, 2009
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Computers dominate stock trading like never before. It's no coincidence markets are ever more volatile and opaque
By Andrew Leonard
July 13, 2009
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Dell introduces a new website for female customers. What are the chances they sell a pink laptop?
By Sarah Hepola
May 12, 2009
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I've heard reading online uses more energy than printing documents. Can that be true?
By Pablo Päster
September 8, 2008
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Video game designers are racing to create characters that feel real. Now, if they could only turn digital figures into flesh and blood.
By Matt Shaer
February 19, 2008
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They use less power, and they are gradually replacing desktops everywhere, but small is not necessarily beautiful.
By Andrew Leonard
May 8, 2008
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Like electricity, the Web is everywhere and changes everything, says Nicholas Carr. But the one thing it can't deliver is freedom.
By Scott Rosenberg
January 24, 2008
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Why can't I get over this? It's not like my family was murdered, or I'm a refugee -- it was just a laptop!
By Cary Tennis
October 18, 2007
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Researchers say women respond better to "gentler" computer programs.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
September 24, 2007
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Salon's Scott Rosenberg explains why even small-scale programming projects can take years to complete, one programmer is often better than two, and the meaning of "Rosenberg's Law."
By Andrew Leonard
February 3, 2007
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Programmers talk to computers using precise instructions -- but when they communicate with people, human language betrays them. An excerpt from "Dreaming in Code."
By Scott Rosenberg
February 3, 2007
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Michael Dell returns to run the company he founded, but the battle he's fighting may have been lost years ago.
By Andrew Leonard
February 1, 2007
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June hourly wages tick up, but long-term, inequality will only grow.
By Andrew Leonard
July 7, 2006
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A consultant hacks into the FBI's computer systems.
By Tim Grieve
July 6, 2006
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More than 50 percent of our recycled computers are shipped overseas, where their toxic components are polluting poor communities. Meanwhile, U.S. laws are a mess, and industry and Congress are resisting efforts to stem "the effluent of the affluent."
By Elizabeth Grossman
April 10, 2006
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A guide to how and where to dispose of your computer so it doesn't end up in a toxic dump.
By Elizabeth Grossman
April 10, 2006
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The computing world mourns the passing of technologist Anita Borg.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 9, 2003
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New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
By Farhad Manjoo
November 5, 2002
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Wayne Wang's new film, "The Center of the World," shows how dangerous geek love can be.
By Karen Croft
April 19, 2001
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Let me tell you what happened in the Mississippi of Mexico while I was out with the Pusher Divine, and visited by Peter Lorre and his giant knife.
By Carlos Amantea
April 3, 2001
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Y2K never quite happened. When you're paranoid, that's a tough pill to swallow.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 12, 2001
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A group of French technicians is suspended for using company computers to send dirty pictures.
By Jack Boulware
November 7, 2000
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The divide between blacks and jobs isn't digital Plus: How to improve the election process; was "Kiss Me, Kate" worth reviving?
Letters to the editor
March 6, 2000
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Don't feel guilty about not buying your toddler a Pentium, a new book argues: You may be doing the kid a favor.
By Andrew Leonard
August 1, 1998
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Canned obsolescence: By Aaron Weiss. We only think old computers are useless -- that's what the industry wants us to think
By Aaron Weiss
June 18, 1998
Is the Internet melting our brains?
The battlebots of Wall Street
Shopping for computers is tough!
Ask Pablo
The quest for the perfect game face
Trapped in the grid
My laptop was stolen -- I feel like my life is gone!
Software is hard
Words fail us
When it asks for a password, just hit "return"
Where computers go to die -- and kill
How to recycle your computer
"Well-behaved women rarely make history"
Voting into the void
Wayne's world
Wheelchairs, pig guts, computers and machetes
Bunker fever
Glenn Greenwald
War Room