By Stephen Humphries: Robot Kismet can walk, talk, and make logical decisions. What's the next step in the quest for artificial intelligence?

Several major booksellers have shelved the idea of selling online editions. [Christian Science Monitor]

A lawsuit against spam on the Internet is part of a larger effort to control the proliferation of unsolicited e-mail.

Americans are discovering that the broad effort to fight spam can backfire.

Read musings by journalist Stephen Lapointe about how frequently the word millennium is misspelled.