Translation: protect Klaatu's home videos! Meet Drobo, what his inventors call the world's first storage robot. It is an important step in the consumerization of IT: a storage array that manages ...

As I'm sure half the known and 2/3 of the yet to be discovered universe is aware now, salesforce.com had an outage on January 6. It was due to a memory allocation failure in the main servers and it ...

In 1951, when I had just graduated from grade school and was at the height of my obsession with science fiction, I saw a film that was to have a lasting impact on my life and my political activism far ...

From Letters Editor Betty Talbert: When I chose Bill Spitalnick’s letter for publication, I realized what a great way to introduce some of the fun that we can have by putting letters on the blog.

"The Day The Earth Stood Still" is a 1951 sci-fi movie about an alien that comes to earth to warn the global leaders that if they don't stop all the fighting and discord, the earth will be destroyed.

In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of some of the most memorable alien invasion films. The latest entry into the ...

The meek British proofreader is the subject of "The Foreigner," a 30-year-old-comedy opening today at University Theatre in Fayetteville. Masterminded by playwright Larry Shue, the story follows the ...

When the aliens do invade, will you be ready? Will you bake them a welcome wagon gift or celebrate your Second Amendment rights by stockpiling semi-automatics? Our built-in distrust of change is what ...

Down here in Florida, our big expense is air conditioning not heating. (Eat your heart out, Minnesota!) That means, unlike a lot of northern schools, we don’t take much of a Christmas break, and will ...