I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere in Silicon Valley these days, and that now includes a museum. A new exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View rolls through the history ...

When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, and [State of Electronics] has done a ...

When it comes to education, there is no substitute for learning by doing. To teach children Spanish, have them speak it. To teach them art, give them paper and paints. Plenty of tech titans got their ...

A computer does one thing at a time, even if it feels like it’s doing multiple things at once. In reality, it’s just switching between tasks very quickly. But a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) ...

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View is worth a visit. Last week I blogged about a lecture at the Computer History Museum on Intel’s disruptive moves with its 80386 chip back in the mid-80s.

The watershed open-sourced design marks a milestone in open hardware innovation and cements its place in computer history. Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform ...

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