You might be forgiven for thinking Google Glass was a mere blip on the landscape of recent history. Almost nobody has heard of anything Glass, or Glass-related, for months, so some are questioningwhether or not the wearable still exists — or if it has a future. I'll admit this. The last time I

DARPA is funding a new project by Rice University called PLINY, and it's neither a killer robotnor a high-tech weapon. PLINY, named after Pliny the Elder who wrote one of the earliest encyclopedias ever, will actually be a tool that can automatically complete a programmer's draft -- and yes, it

Some things don't go together: Cats and dogs, New York Yankee and Boston Red Sox fans, Linux and Windows... or do they? In San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, and I quote, "Microsoft loves Linux." That's a heck of a long way from Steve Ballmer proclaiming back in 2001 that "Linux is a

It's a term we're hearing a lot, as device and OS vendors start to move away from the old metaphors of the desktop computing world, as we switch to one that's shaped by ubiquitous computing and the power of the artificial intelligences that run in the cloud. So what is "authentically digital"? It's

Why is it called Windows 10 instead of Windows 9? Might as well get this question out of the way early. Microsoft’s official responses to this question have been almost comically vague. It’s reminiscent of the decision to abandon the Metro name, which was also never explained in a satisfactory way.