Watch your back, Ken Jennings: a supercomputer is gunning for your crown as the greatest Jeopardy player ever. And it'll have its chance in February. (It's about time, too.)

You know the Bat Computer, Batman's machine that can answer any question? Well, IBM has been working on developing something like it for well on three years now, and now the company feels that the machine is nearly ready for prime time. Literally — called "Watson," the Q&A supercomputer is scheduled to appear on Jeopardy! this fall.

Seeing this modem from 1964 inspires a weird sense of envy, even if it is as slow as molasses. My wireless router looks cool and all, but it didn't come in a hand-carved box with dovetail joints, brass buckles, leather...

The US Government has just put in an order for a new supercomputer from IBM, dubbed the Sequoia. What makes the Sequoia so special? Well, for starters it's about 20 times faster than the world's current fastest supercomputer. Yeah, it's...