It's no surprise, really. The name of the game in the tech industry is making interactions between people and their gizmos ever more human—and human often equals humorous. That means everything from ...

In Google Maps, the distance-measuring tool offers a choice of three unit systems: Metric, English or “I’m Feeling Geeky.” If you click the third one, you’re offered a long list of, ahem, somewhat ...

Things aren’t what they once were, the saying goes. And perhaps they never will be. E-mails from my readers generally fall into either of two categories. One group consists of letters from vendors, ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE They’re gonna love this one at the Apple Genius Bar. A New York ...

But what if the same lines had come out of a computer? Would you have been tickled the same way? Would you still have been in splits? It looks like you would if the jokes by a ‘computerised comedien’ ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the fuck up.” ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the fuck up.” ...