The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

He was completely unaware that this one minor character would attain a massive cult following amongst Star Wars fans, purely ...

Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are all racing to build a quantum computer. But the technology's feasibility is as hazy as its physics.

The only known photographs of mathematician and computing pioneer Ada Lovelace have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery just before they were expected to be sold to a private buyer.

Tucked away 90 feet underground lay thousands of records in a unique collection at the University. The collection tells the history of one of the most remarkable advances in human civilization – ...

Computers are far more than ultra-fast number-crunchers. Crucially, if given a new set of instructions, a computer’s processor and memory can – in principle, at least – do anything from ...

The history of mechanical computers is a fascinating one, going all the way back to Stonehenge and any number of ancient structures that may or may not have been built to compute a calendar, zodiac, ...

It seems like a marvel that the world’s first digital computer, which included about every key concept of the current digital computer in its mechanical and logical features, was created in the 1830s.

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...

Illustration of Father of the Computer - Charles Babbage (The portrait rights have already expired, so there are no copyright issues.) Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images ...