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The malicious e-mails are being sent to people and businesses across the state.

Candy is great and all, but trick-or-treaters in northeast Grand Rapids could get a lot more than sweets this Halloween. WZZM-13 reports that the Geek Group, a non-profit science and technology educational organization, is giving out 250 desktop computers to local kids.

This September, there will be the first ever "Visual Doom AI" competition, to determine which AI will reign supreme at fragging other AI, and be able to not only figure out the levels by "sight" alone, but also race to the BFG!

Believe it or not, before everyone had a smart phone, owning an actual computer was a luxury. I can't think of one household that I know, friend and family, that does not own a computer. I am not just talking a game console, phone, etc. I'm talking a hardcore desktop computer. If computers didn't exist, I wouldn't even have a job I bet. Do you remember your first computer though?

The first operating system that I ever dealt with was MS-DOS. It was primitive but we got by with it. Computers for the longest time were considered 'Nerd Tools' because of all the code you had to know just to get something running. Windows 95 came around and changed all of that. However, their ad campaign didn't change quite yet though.

The future is here! The Associated Press just announced that no longer will humans be needed to cover NCAA games, since they've partnered with a company called Automated Insights to have computers do it. The upside: AP will now be able to cover all the games that happen, and the little schools won't feel so left out. The downside: Computers will be writing the articles, with all the love and passi

It used to take weeks and months to make CGI characters look and move like real people for movies, but now technology is getting so good and powerful that a lot can be done in real time. Check out these guys who are making a movie titled "Construct".  The movie looks pretty bad-ass, and the tech behind it is pretty freakin' cool, too!