Computing

Forty years ago, in 1971, the first computer virus was released to the world. Sadly, PC worms, viruses and trojans have gotten much, much worse than a simple text-based challenge to computer owners.

A group of PC companies and universities have devised a new CPU architecture that could render most computer processors next-to-impossible to completely knock out of commission.

At the TED Conference, a Google Fellow showed off an automobile that can drive itself using nothing but sensors and cameras. The future is now!

Christopher "moot" Poole, the founder of infamous message board 4chan, spoke at South by Southwest. During his keynote, he talked about how 4chan is misunderstood and how Mark Zuckerberg is wrong about Internet anonymity.

If you are planning to purchase a mini-ITX motherboard from Asus, you'll also receive a complimentary PC case... in the form of the shipping container.

Those of you who have AT&T Internet and find yourself using 250GB+ a month of bandwidth may soon be seeing overage charges appear on your bill.

Hewlett-Packard's CEO has announce the company's intention of including WebOS on all their computers by 2012.

Worried that rooting your Motorola Xoom tablet will void the LTE upgrade? Fear not! Motorola will let it slide.

If you are a recent purchaser of the iPad and have a bit of a bitter taste in your mouth over the iPad 2 announcement, rejoice! You're getting $100 back!

Behold this video guide that walks you down memory lane and shows off the progressive evolution of the Windows operating system, from basic menu windows to the spectacle that is Windows 7.