No one knows where they keep the Bush message machine, but when it is working well, it hums more quietly than the White House air conditioning. So precise is this instrument that it carefully prunes ...

Reader Geof points out that you can get some idea of what Time Machine is up to - when it is performing backups, and how large each backup is - simply by looking at the Console. Open the Console (in ...

It sounds like a politician's dream: a machine that can tell you exactly what to say to change a voter's mind. Well, that's what a political scientist has come up with — at least, a first tentative ...