On 1982, "Time" magazine named the personal computer its "Machine of the Year." The news devastated Steve Jobs.

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

The most iconic and infamous twin films in movie history include the pairings of Antz and A Bug's Life, and The Prestige and ...

A little over 50 years ago, Mexico decided to build a resort destination from scratch. It exceeded everyone's expectations.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait ...

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 ...

The annual Vintage Computer Festival kicks off Friday on the Peninsula. The event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View shows visitors the technology that launched Silicon Valley. The ...