There are some things that belong in a computer. Wires, chips, whirring mechanical doodads—what most of us would think of, sensibly, as “hard drive stuff.” Absent from this list—absent from most lists ...

A "Minecraft" player just built a virtual computer that actually runs programs inside the video gaming tile after a seven-month-long process. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 03: Lydia Winters (L) and Saxs ...

"Whoa." It's the familiar refrain of Neo (Keanu Reeves) in 1999's The Matrix, the celebrated cyberpunk thriller that imagines reality as a grandiose computer simulation. It's also how a few sci-fi ...

In 2017 I went up to Seattle for PAX as usual, and while I was up there I heard about the Living Computer Museum, an institution in southern Seattle founded by Paul Allen to preserve PC history. I ...

A team of researchers is going down the theoretical rabbit hole with a test to find out if our universe is nothing more than a computer program. By Clay Dillow Published Oct 11, 2012 10:26 PM EDT Get ...

Intel's technology evangelist sees a future where everything is a computer. Sept. 12, 2013 — -- Those "Intel Inside" stickers might soon be on a lot more than just your laptop or desktop computer ...

You’ll need to wrap all computer components in antistatic bubble cushioning wrap. Start by placing the computer tower in an upright position on a sturdy table or surface. Then use the antistatic ...

What if the classic late 90s sci-fi flick The Matrix actually had it right? What if we’re all just living inside of a computer simulation? That’s the idea behind a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom, a ...

Picture this: the members of Rusted Root, the one-hit-wonder world music band from the 1990s that’s been haunting us in car commercials and romantic comedies for the past two decades, suddenly decide ...

A DJ in the United Kingdom was driven to distraction by a bug in his computer — an ant trapped inside the laptop’s screen. Ian Ossia, 46, at first thought the scurrying in­sect was on its surface and ...