To mark Bill Gates' last day as a full-time employee of Microsoft, we'll have plenty of coverage all day. First up, videos with a look back at the early days of the PC.

Don Reisinger thinks we should know the names of major video game players. Should we?

Investor activist Carl Icahn explains why Yahoo has been a no show on his blog, but he entices readers with a "stay tuned" advisory.

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Hacked iPhones get Pandora-like derandomizing--Start-up Instinctiv offers iPhone application that turns standard iTunes-shuffling feature into something a bit more coherent. The catch: it works on unlocked iPhones only.

Interview with globetrotting Nokia researcher--New Scientist magazine has a good interview with roving Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase. He travels around the world observing and photographing how people live their lives, and how mobile phones fit into that.

AMD bests Nvidia with graphics chip strategy--AMD appears to have bested Nvidia's design in the latest round of a perennial graphics chip war.

Zappos tries robots on for size--In addition to now selling gadgets, the online retailer will be using gadgets to fill your order.

Dance Charge uses the kinetic energy generated by your body in motion to juice up your phone.

The two mobile virtual-network operators are combining forces to better compete against the big nationwide carriers: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile USA.

AMD appears to have bested Nvidia's design in the latest round of a perennial graphics chip war.

He's cutting back, for sure, but his tenacity, intellectual intensity, passion for technology, and competitiveness will now be applied more fully to saving lives.

Best known as the twins who sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss now make headlines for something else: the men's straight pair event in the Olympics.

In an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says a deal with Yahoo is unlikely, according to a CNBC report.

Mercedes lays out low-carbon driving plan; Duke buys wind farm developer; smart power strips save energy; California's aggressive climate change plan; off-shore wind in the U.S.

Apple is working on an application aimed at letting people use an iPod Touch or iPhone to remotely control iTunes audio playing in the home, MacRumors.com reports.

After years of grammatical "themself" limbo, social network decides to request that its members specify whether they're male or female, still letting transgendered individuals opt out.

The "long tail" theory of Web economics made a big splash a few years back. New research suggests that the effect is probably overestimated.

Ricoh adds a 3-axis compass, called an SE-3 GPS module, to its 500SE GPS camera, such that it displays the position and azimuth of the camera on its liquid crystal display.

Five-star post ratings and import-export capabilities are among the fixes and tweaks, which are available in the company's "Blogger in Draft" beta test.

A report says AT&T is getting ready to release multimedia messaging service feature for the 3G iPhone.

Storage on the grid would allow use of more solar and wind power and avoid the need for new power plants. So what's holding up grid storage?

Mark Wegleitner, chief technology officer of the company's broadband division, talks about the Comcast-BitTorrent controversy and the future of Verizon's fiber-to-the-home network.

There are several technologies and new companies making storage devices to smooth out the load on the power grid and to integrate wind and solar power.