Ten's a great number. It must be, otherwise we wouldn't use it so often, right? Right. Thanks to the metric system, even things that used to be measured in base-12 and base-60 are now in base-10. O...

You know 80s cyberpunk movies where hackers sit in front of black screens all day, typing furiously until they solve the problem.avoid thermonuclear meltdown.find love along the way.That isn't just...

Whenever the word "mother" gets thrown in front of another word, whether it's landshiphousehoodyou know that you're dealing with something that's kind-of a big deal. The motherboard's also a big de...

If the different parts of a computer had their own mottos, the Central Processing Unit's would be something likekeep moving on.move along.[any other positive pop punk hook from the mid-2000s]. Its...

If the computer was an orchestra, the operating system would be the conductor. If it was a group of Kindergartners on a field trip, the OS would be the harried but optimistic Miss Frizzle wannabe....