Some people seem to carry a computer curse, frustrated by a plague of viruses, hard-drive failures, power surges and software conflicts that appear and disappear without rational explanation.

Robert X. Cringely:
In the 1980s, we called them “corporate raiders.” In the 1880s, we called them “robber barons” — guys like Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, and Jim Fisk, who were the Ivan Boeskys and Michael Milkens of their era. No matter what the century, their game was the same, using other people’s money to take [...]

Scientists at University College London and University of California in LA are now able to tell what images people were looking at or what sounds they were listening to through scans of their brains.