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Darpa has developed some of the coolest weaponry for the US military. Now it’s going to upgrade the soldiers themselves.

Clever business models and the falling price of storage, bandwidth, and processing have given rise to a new economy. Call it “freeconomics.”

Auctions were supposed to be the new way to buy and sell everything. It didn't turn out that way—just ask eBay.

Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia.

Let’s lionize these technologists who kicked off the computer revolution.

Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle.

The telecommunications revolution is coming—and it will be driven by the people, for the people.

The idea that intellectual property in a Net-based market can lose its value horrifies most owners and creators. They’d better get over it.

One man. Two phones. Dozens of GPS apps. Mathew Honan reports on his three weeks living la vida local.

The untold story of the Microsoft antitrust case and what it means for the future of Bill Gates and his company.