A David has just arose to take on the Goliath that is Google: Wolfram|Alpha, a search engine which serves up formatted answers to questions rather than provide just a list of links. As of this writing ...

CNET News editor Rafe Needleman and reporter Stephen Shankland discuss their ups and downs with the search engine that computes. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The scattered bits of information you upload to Facebook might not seem interesting on their own – a photo of a baby here, a happy birthday greeting there. But taken as a whole, your Facebook profile ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

Stephen Wolfram, the genius behind the seminal math software Mathematica, the ambitious book A New Kind of Science, and the quirky search engine Wolfram Alpha, has been collecting data on his life for ...

Wolfram Alpha is opening up its data via an application programming interface. It's a good move that allows others to take advantage of collective information resources. Dave Rosenberg has more than ...

One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed ...