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Dell introduces a new website for female customers. What are the chances they sell a pink laptop?
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:42 PM UTC 33Life Broadsheet, Gender, Computers
Dell introduces a new website for female customers. What are the chances they sell a pink laptop?
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:42 PM UTC 33I've heard reading online uses more energy than printing documents. Can that be true?
Monday, Sep 8, 2008 10:12 AM UTC 28They use less power, and they are gradually replacing desktops everywhere, but small is not necessarily beautiful.
Thursday, May 8, 2008 8:20 PM UTC 21Video game designers are racing to create characters that feel real. Now, if they could only turn digital figures into flesh and blood.
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008 12:40 PM UTC 14Like electricity, the Web is everywhere and changes everything, says Nicholas Carr. But the one thing it can't deliver is freedom.
Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 12:00 PM UTC 13Why can't I get over this? It's not like my family was murdered, or I'm a refugee -- it was just a laptop!
Thursday, Oct 18, 2007 10:29 AM UTC 59Researchers say women respond better to "gentler" computer programs.
Monday, Sep 24, 2007 6:57 PM UTC 22Salon's Scott Rosenberg explains why even small-scale programming projects can take years to complete, one programmer is often better than two, and the meaning of "Rosenberg's Law."
Saturday, Feb 3, 2007 1:35 PM UTC 74Programmers talk to computers using precise instructions -- but when they communicate with people, human language betrays them. An excerpt from "Dreaming in Code."
Saturday, Feb 3, 2007 1:30 PM UTC 29Michael Dell returns to run the company he founded, but the battle he's fighting may have been lost years ago.
Thursday, Feb 1, 2007 4:54 PM UTCJune hourly wages tick up, but long-term, inequality will only grow.
Friday, Jul 7, 2006 6:14 PM UTCA consultant hacks into the FBI's computer systems.
Thursday, Jul 6, 2006 1:44 PM UTCMore than 50 percent of our recycled computers are shipped overseas, where their toxic components are polluting poor communities. Meanwhile, U.S. laws are a mess, and industry and Congress are resisting efforts to stem "the effluent of the affluent."
Monday, Apr 10, 2006 11:17 AM UTC 14A guide to how and where to dispose of your computer so it doesn't end up in a toxic dump.
Monday, Apr 10, 2006 11:15 AM UTC 15The computing world mourns the passing of technologist Anita Borg.
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2003 7:30 PM UTCNew touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002 4:17 PM UTCWayne Wang's new film, "The Center of the World," shows how dangerous geek love can be.
Thursday, Apr 19, 2001 7:35 PM UTCLet me tell you what happened in the Mississippi of Mexico while I was out with the Pusher Divine, and visited by Peter Lorre and his giant knife.
Tuesday, Apr 3, 2001 9:00 AM UTCY2K never quite happened. When you're paranoid, that's a tough pill to swallow.
Monday, Feb 12, 2001 8:00 PM UTCA group of French technicians is suspended for using company computers to send dirty pictures.
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