The Homebrew Computer Club where the Apple I got its start is deservedly famous—but it's far from tech history's only community gathering centered on CPUs. Throughout the 70s and into the 90s, groups ...

Computer-assisted reporting or CAR has been around, well — ever since there were computers. Even when I was in journalism school (which was longer ago than I care to remember), we learned about ...

“Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age,” an exhibition gathering 100 works that illustrate how artistic practices shifted with the emergence of computer technology beginning in the 1950s, opens at the ...

Your display is probably the most important aspect of your ergonomic interaction with your computer. Recent advances are nothing short of amazing. Last summer I traded in my trusty but aging Dell XPS ...

Thomas Oxley has a love-hate relationship with Black Mirror. On the one hand, he can appreciate the show’s “gripping” appeal. On the other hand, it means facing a deluge of accusations that he’s ...

Computer security, until now, was a matter of bolting on third-party hardware products or adding on software to screen out unauthorized users. Not so any more. Keyboard-bound passwords, smart cards ...

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A Digitunity analysis of previously unpublished Census data reveals persistent disparities in computer ownership across age, race, ethnicity, education, and employment status and the gap continues to ...

My dad used to take me to the user groups back in Buffalo when I was a small lad back in the late 70's early 80's. I loved looking through the boxes of shareware disks for something good we could take ...