IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...

When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But even before that, there were a set of computers that often had no keyboard, or recognizable ...

Employees of a waste disposal company were clearing out a U.K. home late last year when they made an accidental—and valuable—discovery. After stumbling upon some old boxes, they resurfaced a Q1 ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...

In March 1975, The Eagles' Best of My Love, was the number one song, the top box office movie was The Godfather Part II, and All in the Family was the most popular TV show. However, I was most excited ...

The first piece of technology that I could call my own was a 13-inch Acer Chromebook. I won it in a raffle at the school fair during fifth grade. The fair had raffles every year, but the prizes were ...

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

Long before Hinge or Tinder, early computing took finding your perfect match to a new level. Associate Professor of Data Science Mar Hicks, and author of "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order ...

The invention of the computer is often articulated like a three-act play: the idea of the computer arrives, then there is the process of how to make the computer and, finally, there is the creation.