One man is the reason you’re able to transfer gigabytes of data over your local network. That one man’s name is Bob Metcalfe, and he’s the father of the Ethernet—the reason you can connect to another PC for work, and for play. In March 1973,...

We know that eggheads sometimes get crazy and pick up the unlikeliest topics to write a research paper. One such paper is about the different types of video game deaths, and their co relation with the rush of hormones that bring forth a giddy...

It’s odd that an Internet protocol should be named after a rodent. If you look through your browser’s proxy settings, you’ll find it listed right there—where did it come from, and where did it go? The Gopher protocol is supposed to be a...

Now this is what classifies as starting over from a clean slate. This is a scenario that all of us (yep, even billionaires and star kids) face at least once in our lives. Namely, could we not forget everything bad that happened to us during the course...

Organizations have needs—office documentation, e-mail, personal communications (including chat), and scheduling and organizing solutions such as calendars. We’ve said plenty about how Google’s productivity applications can make a difference to...