A new TV show about the early days of the personal computer revolution evokes memories of Commodore 64s and the last time amateurs could bend a modern graphic user interface computer to their will.
Why do so many pieces of software leave us lost, frustrated and railing at their arcane and ugly buttons, choices and placements? Wayne MacPhail presents four reasons.
A hapless programmer's little error has escalated to a cardiac arrest across the Web, has cost billions to fix and has potentially been used by a secretive and near-rogue government agency.