While the Altair 8800 may have been the first commercially successful personal computer as we now understand the term, by most definitions, it wasn't the really the first PC, and it certainly didn't ...

In the GenAI era, program comprehension is not just another skill in the toolbox; it is the toolbox itself. It enables learners to move beyond passive acceptance of AI outputs, guiding them to ...

40 years ago this month, Popular Electronics, a Ziff Davis publication, ushered in the era of the personal computer with its cover story on the Altair 8800. Over the next few days, I'll be posting a ...

March 16, 2009 Although obviously best known for its cars and motorbikes, BMW also creates yachts, aircraft and trains, and has now turned its design expertise to a computer gaming tower with the ...

Peter Zigich, the designer behind the Modular Mac Pro concept, sent us details of his next Apple computer concept: a Mac Pro based on ARM architecture that takes advantage of that processor’s high ...

High performance computing specialist Silicon Graphics has created a concept computer called Molecule using mostly off-the-shelf consumer electronics components that packs in 10,000 cores into a ...

This integrated handlebar stem/computer concept is worth writing about just for its name, the "Computermatron Stemigration." Designed by Ryan Hahn of Trek bikes for Trek World 2012, the stem is made ...

At Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, I got the chance to see the development process for two prototype devices that could be an early look at what might be coming next for computers.

PHOENIX — The computer chip factories rising from an empty expanse of the Sonoran Desert test the concept of immensity. The ...

Tech expert Michelle Thatcher grew up surrounded by gadgets and sustained by Tex-Mex cuisine. Life in two major cities--first Chicago, then San Francisco--broadened her culinary horizons beyond meat ...