For three years — ever since my son Ben was in fifth grade — he and I have engaged in a quixotic but determined quest: We’ve searched for a simple and straightforward way to get the introductory ...

Voting machines use proprietary code with documented security flaws while your smartphone gets more transparency and updates than democracy itself.

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore's computers.

Few distinctions in computer technology are as clear as the one between hardware and software. But it was not always so. The term software first appeared in 1958, more than 10 years after the ...