It's no surprise, really. The name of the game in the tech industry is making interactions between people and their gizmos ever more human—and human often equals humorous. That means everything from ...

Did you hear about the new computer virus called the “congressional virus”? If you’ve got it, your computer locks up, the screen splits in half and each side starts blaming the other for the problem.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

Double entendres have been making us laugh since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, but up until now computers weren’t in on the joke. Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, two computer scientists at the ...