The man, only identifying himself by the online nickname UP, described himself to the Shanghai Morning Post as a ‘computer nerd’. After breaking up with his girlfriend last year, he is no ...

Well, well. Look who’s become a nerd? Toy maker Mattel has given Barbie, an iconic fashion doll since 1959, a new career — this time as a computer engineer . For the first time, the company ...

Awkward pauses rule in the first trailer for Computer Chess, which takes a funny, low-key look at nerd culture circa 1980 at a hotel where programmers have gathered for a man-versus-machine chess ...

A computer nerd who lived with his parents made nearly £300,000 from his bedroom selling his home-made software used to crash websites and computer networks around the world, a court heard today.

That’s the conclusion from new research out of the University of Washington, which found that women don’t choose careers in computer science because of the “nerd” stereotype in the media.

In his new book, Source Code, Gates recalls a unique childhood that led him to build a technology empire. We talk BASIC, old PCs, Microsoft's future, and AI's promise and perils. I'm the Editor-in ...

He's a "16-year-old computer nerd," one US official tells the network. In the past, "cracka" has allegedly hacked accounts linked to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Homeland ...

What follows is an email (much of it paraphrased) from a non-techie asking a couple nerds for computer buying advice. It was forwarded to me for my two cents. I have been advised by my niece and ...

But why let that heat go to waste? That's the inspiration behind a heating system created by Dutch company Nerdalize, which wants to exploit the "nerd power" of computers for energy purposes ...

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Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was never any good at chess, never had the discipline to get better, and don’t have any openings memorized or anything like that.