It's no surprise, really. The name of the game in the tech industry is making interactions between people and their gizmos ever more human—and human often equals humorous. That means everything from ...

Computer scientists and engineers always seem to make their way into comics. Tony Stark, haughty genius, builds himself into Iron Man; Bruce Banner, unfortunate victim of his own brilliance, becomes ...

In Google Maps, the distance-measuring tool offers a choice of three unit systems: Metric, English or “I’m Feeling Geeky.” If you click the third one, you’re offered a long list of, ahem, somewhat ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

Things aren’t what they once were, the saying goes. And perhaps they never will be. E-mails from my readers generally fall into either of two categories. One group consists of letters from vendors, ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the fuck up.” ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the fuck up.” ...