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The accepted doctrine about how to create these annoying codes is failing our security, writes Oliver Burkeman.
Technology was supposed to make things simpler. This was the famous promise of those laughable 1960s predictions about life in the 21st century.
Every email that isn’t garbage can be categorised as either "active" or "reference", writes <b>Oliver Burkeman</b>.
There’s nothing new in bulk buying and negotiating discounts. But Groupon does it in 47 countries for more than 70-million people.
In this parlous climate for the traditional media, a journalist who gets too excited about a gadget such as the iPad is liable to attract scorn.
The gaffes, the gibberish, the gurning. Admit it: there’s a part of him you’re going to miss. Oliver Burkeman on Bush’s comic legacy.
Rising fuel costs make electric golf carts an unusual alternative to cars.
Oliver Burkeman speaks to Oliver Stone about his new movie, W about US president George W Bush.
One amusing way to waste five minutes on the internet is to visit the website TripAdvisor.com, which features thousands of travellers’ hotel reviews.
There are few places on the planet where the influence of five bright yellow residents of Springfield has yet to be felt, and there will be fewer still with the long-awaited…
Such was the mania gripping New York as the pope’s visit to the United States reached its emotional culmination that at least one busload of visitors erroneously mobbed what…
Using a team of co-authors, James Patterson has become perhaps the world’s most successful writer.
The world’s carbon dioxide emissions did not plummet to zero after Live Earth and rock stars did not rise as one to trade their private jets for bicycles. Yet the scandalous…
All is emptiness, according to practitioners of Zen Buddhism, and you don’t need to read many news stories about the hotel heiress and inexplicable celebrity Paris Hilton before…
With its machine-gun dialogue, crackling wit and political savvy, The West Wing has dominated American TV drama for almost four years. But now Aaron Sorkin, the genius who…
Brando jeans, Brando leather jackets, Brando Harleys … Alarmed that the actor’s name and image may be used for commercial gain without its say-so, the Brando estate has applied…
The United Nations appeared on the verge of breaking the deadlock over Lebanon recently, paving the way for a Security Council resolution in which major powers including the…
With the George W Bush’s approval rating down to 33% in some polls, his lowest ever, an overt message from a musician of Neil Young’s stature could find a large audience, reports…
Jared Nissim wanted to make one thing clear. ”This is definitely not a dating service,” the 32-year-old New Yorker explained, as a motley group of 18 men and women, many unknown…
The International Space Station (ISS) is missing and nobody is terribly sure where it has gone. In an extraordinary press conference at Cape Canaveral this week, Nasa admitted…
