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Skype will sell Wi-Fi phones embedded with Skype Internet calling software.

Pandora’s founder travels from town to town, sharing his time and story with fans.

Tesla Motors showcased its upcoming Tesla Roadster to oohs and aahs this week in Santa Monica, Calif.

The Kenbak-1 is considered by many to be the world’s first “Personal Computer.” The Computer History Museum granted it this designation when they were still located in Boston in 1986. More specifically, the machine represents the first commercially available Von Neumann (stored program) computing device intended and priced for personal use.

John V. Blankenbaker designed the Kenbak-1 and marketed in the pages of Scientific American in 1971. The machine’s name was taken from the middle of John’s last name.

Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you inside the his Kenbak-1. Erik has graciously allowed us to republish his photos and descriptions. You can find a much more detailed description of Erik’s Kenbak-1 and additional photos of the machine’s in his collection on his Web site Vintage-Computer.com.

You can share your experiences with the Kenbak-1 and other classic computers using the discussion link below this image, or on Erik’s Vintage Computer Forums.

From the chimp playing Pac-Man to Jon Stewart’s jabs at Sen. Ted Stevens, here’s a greatest hits collection of tech videos.

Exhibition on the application of artificial intelligence in robots is part of the jointly held 2006 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 2006 Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Spider-Man and other Marvel characters will soon be available in Planetwide’s Comic Book Creator software.

Satellites keep watch over the earth to monitor the progress of forest fires, and can even give first responders early alerts.

Japanese company unveils machines powered by Intel’s dual-core Itanium 2 chip, known as Montecito.

When you want to know what’s happening on your network, systems, or applications, but not install a auditing software, Linux (and BSD and occasionally Windows) distributions “Live CDs” can help. Live CDs are OS distributions on a CD- or DVD-ROM that you can boot and run directly from the CD and RAM, without installing anything to the hard drive. In a Right Tool for the Job blog post, David HM Specter explains how you can perform security audits using the Backtrack Linux Live CD. This gallery shows you several of the Backtrack tools in action.

Submitted by David HM Specter

These images help illustrate the magnitude of the Gigapxl Project’s ultra-high-resolution Portrait of America.

Computer the size of a shirt button sticks on photos, documents and cards.

The Commodore PET 2001 was the first fully integrated computer from Commodore. Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you inside the Commodore PET 2001.

With a hack saw, a glue gun and a few hours of free time, you too can build a homemade iPod boom box.

European Space Agency says Galileo navigation satellites will be five times more accurate than United States’ system.

Flat-screen TVs are bigger than ever. Take a look at some of the larger offerings in a fast-growing market.

Digital rotoscoping puts Philip K. Dick adaptation in a drug-induced haze.

If not the first home computer, Ed Roberts’ Altair 8800 was definitely the first successful one. Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-computer.com, takes you inside the Altair 8800 as he restores one of these classic machines.