The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.

As China’s largest official scientific body, CAST’s claim to the world’s earliest computer is a big deal. It comes at a time ...

Climate change, AI, geopolitical shifts drive a world in flux, where societies, economies, warfare, no longer binary ...

Even though these characters only appeared in a single episode of a "Star Trek" series, they left an unforgettable mark on ...

Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.

The Earth is in an environmental tailspin that threatens the future of billions of people, finds a major new report from the ...

To rescue itself, the seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook says humanity needs to make dramatic changes to the ...

The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...

The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics say the company has yet to ...

And, as we changed this means of interaction rather quickly, one way we did it has to do with games. Game engines are now AI ...