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The Linux Foundation recently put up a funny video showing what life might be like without Web search. It added, "A world without Linux would mean a world without the Internet."

Historians and digital preservationists agree on this fact: Today’s web will be mostly lost to time.

Do you know the difference? If not, this is a good read for you.

The future has finally arrived :)

There seems to be a common misapprehension that Linux is for geeks. Certainly, this was once the case: dedicated users compiled their own kernels, and it wasn't for the faint-hearted. But Linux has come a long way since those days.

You can't tell us you don't want one.

In a paper presented at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put forth a mathematical proof that the current best algorithm was optimalin other words, that finding a more efficient way to compute edit distance was mathematically impossible.

Really interesting discussion. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Who doesn't love tech and geek humor t-shirts?

There's always talk of pushing computer processing powers to the limit, but what kind of real power will that take?

Here's what you may have missed at Microsoft's hardware event last week.

"It was totally ruining my life" - a retired engineer on the wifi in his bedroom being flaky.

The first step to cybersecurity, don't tell people your password.