Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

Movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inception suggest it may eventually be possible to erase, modify, or even implant memories into your brain. An upcoming episode of NOVA introduces ...

As Moore's Law has packed more and more transistors onto a single memory chip, scientists have fretted for years that electric charges that "leak" out from those tiny components might cause ...