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The Great Tablet Debate: Fads or Here to Stay?

What is a tablet and who needs one anyway? Are tablets a fad and will they soon fade into irrelevance like Netbooks? Will tablets replace traditional PCs? Is there a tablet market or just an iPad market?

How Many Hours a Day Would You Guess People Watch Electronic Devices?

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A new poll finds 60% of Americans spend between one and six hours a day viewing content on electronic devices.

Who Really Invented the Computer?

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If someone up and asked you “who invented the computer,” how would you respond? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Al Gore? Or say you’re more historically savvy, might you venture Alan Turing? Perhaps Konrad Zuse?

All of the above could prove wrong, depending on what a British research team and millions of dollars turn up over the next decade.

Hello, 3D PC! HP Unveils TouchSmart 620 All-in-One

Okay you visually healthy don’t-need-glasses tech buffs, here’s your chance to don a pair of Buddy Holly-thick specs (thicker, in fact) while parked in front of a computer monitor that doubles as your PC. Meet the HP TouchSmart 620 3D Edition, another svelte, tower-free desktop HP’s adding to its already crowded lineup of all-in-one space-savers. It’s yours, [...]

VIDEO: If Computer Problems Were (Literally) Real

If you ever wondered what computer problems would look like if they were actually real, you’ve got your answer. Literally can’t open folders? God forbid if your firewall isn’t working, and all your windows are crashing.

WATCH: How Long It Takes to Boot Windows 8

Since I can’t turn on my laptop with the power of my mind, I guess I’ll have to live with waiting for it to boot up. You know, for eight seconds. It might be seven-and-a-half seconds too long, but since I can’t expect my phone to also cook, wash my clothes and let me travel [...]

Two Bickering Chatbots Video: Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry

More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.

Hug Your IT Person, It’s ‘System Administrator Appreciation Day’

What started as a joke holiday back in 2000 is now celebrated in several countries all over the world: System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Two Minute Video: Stress Testing a Military-Grade Tablet

The iX104C5 tablet from Xplore Technologies is built for extreme conditions, but how does it fare against life in suburbia?

Dell’s Macbook Air Rival Coming Soon

The Macbook Air rivals are coming.

Post-PC: Tablets and Phones Are Killing Computers, Right?

A coworker came by my desk late yesterday afternoon and, seeing that I had an iPad propped up next to my laptop, asked why we weren’t writing more posts here on Techland about how to use the iPad. Before I could say something like, “You see a square you like and you poke it with [...]