Popgest

Hollywood stars, basketball players and wrestlers have made it into politics, so why not a tech personality?

For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe. He records everything; throws away nothing. Soon, all people will have digital transcripts of their lives, he says.

It's a truth of the modern digital age: If you're using a Web service for free, you're not the customer.

Wesley Donehue applauds the transparency of social media, except when it gets in the way of politicians working together to solve problems on behalf of the public

Cell phones have become one of the most ubiquitous hallmarks of life in the 21st century, but they aren't necessarily good for the environment.

They were crimes born of the Internet age -- romantic solicitations on popular Web site Craigslist that police say led to the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels this past spring.

Digital piracy, long confined to music and movies, is spreading to books.

Darkness fell across parts of China and India on Wednesday morning during a total solar eclipse that was visible to parts of the world's most populous countries.

In a poll published last week by the American magazine Consumer Reports, 71% of adults polled confessed to being very concerned about Internet companies abusing their personal information.