Regarding Murthy v. Missouri : the Supreme Court decision yesterday about government coercing social media companies to censor users' ac...

Here's that previous collection of artificial intelligence-created images that I prodded a computer to produce .   But it's time to ...

Still playing around with AI, for the first real time ever.  Consider it research.  I'm getting professionally involved with an endeavor...

No, I am still not going to "write" a blog post using artificial intelligence.  I'm sitting in front of a keyboard composing ...

Doom , arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. ...

This line from the 1983 movie WarGames has come to mind in the past couple of days: Except right now it's Elon Musk instead of Dabney C...

You might have noticed a slight addition to this blog.  It's on the header, toward the right of the screen.  There now appears the follo...

In what might be the most hilarious case of unintended consequences in recent memory, today  Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. Di...

For whatever reason, over the weekend I found myself musing on how far the Intertubes have come from the crazy days of dial-up PPP and ICQ a...

Unless you're reading this on a mobile device (and even that owes a lot to him) you're enjoying this blog and practically everything...

Musical parody pioneer "Weird Al" Yankovic is working right now on his next album.  And he's not planning on making another. ...

When I first heard about it this morning, it was only from a report and there had been no announced availability but my first reaction was a...

The Liberator: Coming soon to a desktop near you! Defense Distributed has made a lot of headlines lately about the Liberator : a firea...

A short while ago the members of the United States Senate voted 70 to 24 to pass the "Marketplace Fairness Act" : AKA "Intern...

Incest is a terrible thing.  But when you're one person among a population of 300 thousand, your odds of contributing to genetic bottlen...

So... that whole thing about Electronic Arts' new SimCity requiring a constant Internet connection to play ?  EA told us that it was ne...

In two months' time DEFCAD has garnered more than three thousand visits an hour and nearly a quarter-million downloads.  What makes u...

Worst. Wi-fi network name. Ever. That is a screen capture I made of my iPad this past Friday when I was at Mysticon at the Holiday In...

On the fertile green plains of Alberta, Canada, the Kraay Family has engineered the world's largest QR code into a cornfield. And yes...

Simply aim your smartphone's camera at this QR code and it will take you right to this blog! Of course, since you're already looki...