HEARD the one about the computer that turned into a ­comedian? Actually, it’s no joke. Scientists have created a computer ­program which comes up with gags to make us laugh. Did you know with a ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

Scientists have created a computer that tells sexist jokes. The un-PC PC was created by scientists at the University of Edinburgh and is designed to generate its own witty one-liners following a ...

In Google Maps, the distance-measuring tool offers a choice of three unit systems: Metric, English or “I’m Feeling Geeky.” If you click the third one, you’re offered a long list of, ahem, somewhat ...

University of Aberdeen scientists helped develop it several years ago. The launch of the online version on the university's website is aimed at allowing access to the technology around the world. An ...

An experiment to uncover the world’s funniest jokes has found that some computer-generated gags can be more amusing than those thought up by humans. The Laugh Lab survey is being conducted through a ...

IT may have started as a joke for some in the science world but Kim Binsted is having the last laugh. For the young Edinburgh-based scientist's research into computer-generated humour is now ...

It’s the week after Christmas, and we finally got (a little) holiday snow in Michigan. My family went sledding this afternoon, and my son got to try out his new snowboard. I’m home with the family now ...

What began as a ninth-grade prank has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus. Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news ...