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Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.
The IBM RAMAC 305, introduced on this day in 1956, was the world’s first computer to use a magnetic hard disk drive for data ...
The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...
IBM is racing Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a handful of startups to build the world’s first viable quantum computer.
Just a year after transforming Harrison Ford into Rick Deckard in the enigmatic sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner, Ridley Scott pivoted from dystopian Los Angeles to the real-world technological ...
The early Universe hosted ultra-weak magnetic fields that still shaped cosmic structures. New simulations establish stricter limits on their strength. Magnetic fields that originated during the earlie ...
The last calculating machine designed by Blaise Pascal in private hands is heading to Christie's Paris this November.
A statue honouring “formidable” 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace has been given the go ahead. The bronze statue ...
Over on YouTube [The 8-Bit Guy] shows us how the TI-99/4A home computer worked. [The 8-Bit Guy] runs us through this odd ...