Alex L. Goldfayn

In the form of a delivery truck, Santa and his elves arrived early at our house this month. After two painstaking years filled with research and remarkable self-control, my wife...

Distraught and scrambling off the United Airlines plane, the man ran out of the jet bridge past passengers waiting to get on board, clutching his laptop. Smoke poured from it....

Dave Tang, 44 Vice President, Fabrik, Inc., San Mateo, Calif. Chris Williams, 20 Sophomore, University of Illinois, Champaign By now, most people know about photo-sharing Web sites, where you can...

Like laptops, passwords can walk away. While laptops are often lost or stolen--just last month the U.S. Commerce Department announced that a whopping 1,137 of its laptops were missing--passwords are...

When I was a little boy, my dad and I would often walk to a busy, family-owned electronics store on the corner of Devon and Western Avenues. It was called...

Got a clogged drain and need a quick fix? Try pouring some baking soda and vinegar down the drain, then run the hot water. Need to patch a wall? Make...

When it comes to technology, time sure does fly. It seems like yesterday that analog televisions were outselling digital ones nearly 2-1. That was just four years ago, a time...

You've thought about helping those less fortunate than yourself. Perhaps you've talked about volunteering at the local hospital or the animal shelter. But you work. Who has the time? That's...

The voice is tough, edgy, proud. It sounds like Chicago. These streets, these streets made me These people, these people influenced me This city, this is my world Chi-town. These...

Quick, take a guess: How much work did it take to invent the Control + Alt + Delete keystroke combination? A year? A month? Surely it took at least a...