Computer geeks are indeed an odd and esoteric bunch, puzzling and sometimes frustrating to people who've never studied the intricacies of hard drive failures or Internet Protocol stacks. Nowhere are ...

Coverage of the GeekWire Awards, presented by Astound Business Solutions, the Pacific Northwest’s annual startup and tech awards. by Lisa Stiffler on Mar 25, 2024 at 8:27 am March 25, 2024 at 8:27 am ...

Should geeks serve on juries in disputes that involve high technology? Not necessarily, according to a federal judge, speaking at a computer security conference Thursday. While technical cases can be ...

In the beginning, computers were mystical machines created to meet the special needs of government, researchers and large corporations. These were "mainframe" computers. Huge and expensive, only the ...

As a genre, fantasy games offer many possibilities with modern technology for the computer gamer, while the board and card gamers have worlds of games to explore. What was limited to Dungeons and ...

Gibbs celebrates you, the computer geek! You, my computer geek friend, are fantastic! You are amazing! You can coax electrons to do things that don’t just matter to people, they have transformed our ...

Where are all the women who forsake social outings to stay up all night writing computer code and read science fiction? Most of those computer "geeks" (as the stereotype goes) live in countries that ...

The typical image of a computer geek is that of a socially clueless loner. Not only single, but can’t even get a date. Data, however, paints a somewhat different picture — at least when it comes to ...

As we progress into the digital age, America needs its computer geeks. Yet the U.S. government, rather than mine their ideas and talents, has thrown too many of them into prison. If we want to beat ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Even the most quirky of computer nerds can learn to flirt with finesse thanks to a new "flirting course" being offered to budding IT engineers at Potsdam University south of Berlin.

Former major league umpire Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot officials will have on their human counterparts ...

Forget about being put on hold for an hour to reach an unhelpful voice in tech support. These days, there is no shortage of “geeks” waiting to visit your home and give your system a hands-on look. For ...