Movies 26 Jun 13 Luke Y. Thompson How About a Nice Game of Chess – on the Actual WarGames Computer? Greetings, Professor Falken wanna-be. The IMSAI 8080, created by Todd Fischer to be Read More
Daily Lists 12 Sep 12 David Wolinsky 8 of the Most Implausible Hackers in Nerd-Dom Before Al Gore invented the Internet, we nerds didn't have many refuges to Read More
Daily Lists 30 May 12 Shaun Clayton 8 Famous Computers with a Pathetic Amount of Power According to Moore's Law, the amount of transistors that can be placed on Read More
Tech 22 Sep 11 Rob Bricken Skynet Could Use a Hand Jumpstarting This Whole Robot Apocalypse Thing ?From BBC.co.uk:Idle home computers are being sought to help search through mountains of Read More
Tech 10 May 11 Rob Bricken When the Robots Destroy Humanity, at Least They’ll Be Able to Crack Jokes About It ?From Physorg.com:While computers can do just about anything these days, having a sense of Read More
Tech 17 Feb 11 Rob Bricken Watson May Have Won Jeopardy, But Ken Jennings Scores the Moral Victory ?Sure, Watson, the Jeopardy playing supercomputer, crushed former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Read More
Toys 15 Nov 10 Rob Bricken The Prophesied Arrival of Nerd Barbie Draws Near ?It's been many, many months since Mattel announced "nerds win," a.k.a. that Barbie's Read More
Daily Lists 11 Oct 10 Shaun Clayton 7 Terrible Things About PC-DOS Gaming ?Ultima, Test Drive, Wing Commander. All games that ran on the Disk Operating Read More
Nerdery 18 Mar 10 Rob Bricken The Commodore 64 Returns ?No -- really. As a series of keyboard computers, even. Let me let Read More
Nerdery 12 Feb 10 Rob Bricken Nerds Win: Barbie Is a Computer Engineer ?Remember when Mattel was running a poll to see what Barbie's next job Read More