Steven Levy

Bill Gates looks back at the road he and Microsoft have traveled, and at what's ahead for his foundation.

After its new 3G iPhone, what's next for Apple?

Entrepreneur Richard Branson wants to save the Earth—and ride his rocket into outer space.

What the failed deal means for the Net—and users.

Fast Web links students with scholarships. But is a $1,500 grant for duck-calling really worth pursuing?

Microtargeters know all about you, and try to push your personal hot button so you'll cast your vote for their candidate.

Auctomatic is a parable of the Net's start-up culture. You can still make a fortune before you're barely old enough to shave.

The chipmaker's leader discusses core values.

Want to explore the mysteries of deep space from your desktop? Google can help you. And soon, so can Microsoft.

For Max Levchin, one jackpot is only a start.

Surprises at the conference of technology, entertainment and design.

They don't have to be geeks, but pols can't be clueless about the digital world.

Former champ Garry Kasparov still sees the world in terms of pawns and kings—and thinks you should, too.

Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google: Who do you antitrust?

The very existence of a book scanner for consumer use is one of those early warnings of turbulence to come.

Microsoft's $45 billion bid for Yahoo is a 'Hail Mary' to beat Google in search.

Who decides what's a personal attack and what's a fair campaign ad?

Government and industry should figure out how to get faster service for less money, no matter where people live.

Size matters, but has Apple gone too far?

Creating a laptop Jenny Craig could love.

If we can't get today's tech stuff working smoothly, what does that portend for tomorrow's ambitious plans?

Microsoft's founder offers up a celeb-studded video but few tech surprises at his last CES.

Good news for those who think we don't stare enough at screens—soon there will be a way to keep up with e-mail, news feeds and TiVoed movies every waking minute.

The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.

Intel pulls its support of the One Laptop Per Child Project

Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place—Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan—with the right device.

A mathematical—but controversial—idea for fixing the flaws in voting.

Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? Who wants to see that on a Facebook News Feed?

How do you turn around a legend? 'Courage.'

Six things to say when you campaign in Silicon Valley.