The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, California, looks like a fine way to spend an afternoon for anyone interested in, well, the history of computers. And if that description fits you ...

If your travels take you near Mountain View, California, you can have the pleasure of visiting the Computer History Museum. You can see everything from a PDP-1 to an Altair 8800 to a modern PC there.

In today’s computerised world, the word ‘computer’ is everywhere, from home to school to offices to even our pockets! However, have we ever wondered that the word ‘COMPUTER’ actually stands for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th ...

One of the joys of Fallout as a fan is to sit down and deep-dive into its alternate-reality take on United States history. The lore masters at Bethesda have entire events mapped out into canon, from ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations just after midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1 as Congress and the White House remain deadlocked on reaching a funding deal, setting off what could be a ...

The Declaration of Independence was as much economic as political, resisting the mercantilist system favored by the British. That same year, Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations,” providing ...

The ongoing advancement in quantum computing is raising urgent questions about the long-term security of Bitcoin (BTC). Unlike classical machines, quantum computers can solve certain problems ...

After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...