BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The much-hyped Wolfram Alpha launches Friday night, and it has Internet-goers howling with anticipation. But the new search engine's business model could prove to be a real dog.

Greetings from Indianapolis, my old stomping grounds, where I’m attending the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Conference. I’m speaking tomorrow morning on the flipped classroom in ...

[Stephen Wolfram], possibly the only person on Earth who wants a second element named after him, is giving away Mathematica for the Raspberry Pi. For those of you unfamiliar with Mathematica, it’s a ...

Wolfram Alpha is probably the most useful site on the internet. It's not a search engine, it's not an encyclopedia, and it's not a calculator, but it's a little bit of all of that. It's really the ...

Running in command line on a Raspberry Pi, Steven Wolfram’s invaluable laboratory software is being expanded into a logic and knowledge engine that can operate locally or in the cloud. “I think in its ...

How do I install and learn Wolfram Mathematica on my Mac? Mathematica is a powerful piece of software for Mac OS X/macOS (and other operating systems) that’s used by scientists and engineers. It’s ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Wolfram ...

Silicon Valley is full of imperial visionaries whose mission is to take down Google, which now controls about 64 percent of the search market worldwide. They range from Microsoft to newcomers like ...