So find a new best friend who is a computer geek to be your tech tutor, or sign up for a course.

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Among the other drama pickups (the only comedy, The IT Crowd, won't air until later in the season): Journeyman, about a newspaper reporter traveling through time, and Chuck, about a computer geek turned government agent who has spy secrets embedded in his brain.

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Computer geek Leonardo Bonanni PhD, came upon this problem as a Visiting Scientist at MITs Media Lab, and decided the way best way foster true transparency was to map out product supply chains, one product and company at a time.

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The people behind the ultra-cheap computer have decided to harness all that geek enthusiasm sparked since the Raspberry Pi's launch in February and create a one-stop shop where anyone can share games, applications and tools developed for the computer.

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One of its better-known strategies comes in the form of the company's personal-computer gurus--also known as the Geek Squad--originally an independent company that was acquired by Best Buy in 2002.

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That was one of the reasons Mr. Stephens says Best Buy objected when "Chuck, " an NBC comedy about a computer savant who becomes entangled in espionage, wanted to use Geek Squad as its setting.

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What happens if you put a maker of humanoid robots, a consumer gadgets geek and a lady whose mission in life is enthusing children about computer coding in studio together?

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Gear such as the geek-a-cycle allows users to peddle away on a recumbent bicycle at their computer.

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