Old mainframe computers are interesting, especially to those of us who weren’t around to see them in action. We sit with old-timers and listen to their stories of the good ol’ days. They tell us about ...

Note: The following is adapted from Automate This, How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, a book just released by Penguin-Portfolio. Alan Turing is often given the unofficial title of being the ...

Polynesian islanders spoke the language of computers centuries before the first programmer was born. It seems that inhabitants of Mangareva island in French Polynesia created their own particular ...

Excel 2007 has troubles with multiplication when the result is 65,535--a number familiar to those who've dealt with binary numbers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

On February 25, 1991, during the eve of the of an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, a Scud missile fired from Iraqi positions hit a US Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A defense was available – ...