Technology may be advancing and improving at a fearsome rate, but few developments today can match the design, charm and sheer weirdness of the inventions of yesteryear Today we can interact with ...
The pace of technological innovation in the world of computing has been rapid – there is more processing power in the average modern day mobile phone than in the computer that helped the Apollo 11 ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...
The PC; the personal computer; the IBM-compatible. Whatever you want to call it, somehow it has maintained a dominant presence for nearly four decades. If you try to launch any program written from ...
Today many rely on computer hackers to find bugs before the bad guys get hold of them In 1998, Chris Wysopal and friends discovered a way to shut down the internet. With just 30 minutes of work they ...