Some minds were so far ahead of their time that the world couldn’t even understand them. This story focuses on a 19th century heiress who predicted what computers could become long before they existed ...

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...

For math, chalk is very effective for a number of reasons,” said Duke Professor of Mathematics Ezra Miller. Miller said using chalk forces him to be deliberate about what – and in what order – he ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

On April 6, 2026, NASA's Orion spacecraft cruised around the Moon, armed to the teeth with vehicle management computers around 20,000 times faster than those used to achieve an even greater feat ...

A certificate-based, tamper-proof system can stifle growing grey-market and counterfeit problems. But it requires investment ...

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs just put up a post on the giant mechanical binary computer they brought to last month’s Maker Faire. As a faithful reproduction of the Digi-Comp II from the 1960s, ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

‘90s nostalgia is trending harder than ever at the moment, and that extends to tech. Back in 1998, Apple founder Steve Jobs and legendary designer Jony Ive introduced the iMac G3 in a transparent ...