40 years ago this month, Popular Electronics, a Ziff Davis publication, ushered in the era of the personal computer with its cover story on the Altair 8800. Over the next few days, I'll be posting a ...

In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of that niche kitchen tool you saw at a ...

March 16, 2009 Although obviously best known for its cars and motorbikes, BMW also creates yachts, aircraft and trains, and has now turned its design expertise to a computer gaming tower with the ...

Quantum computers work according to a completely different concept than conventional computers. This makes them so incredibly fast that they are believed to have the potential to bring about ...

Hot from the "hang on, why haven't I seen that before?" department comes ARM's video demo of what a Mobile Computer Concept should be. Based on ARM's Cortex A9 processor with the ARM Mali 400 chipset ...

When the term first was coined, ”computer literacy” meant having some mastery of arcane programming languages so that a person could instruct computers to do what was wanted. Computer novices usually ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997, my reaction was pretty dispassionate: As someone who’s played only a few games of chess in my life, I simply didn’t ...