Aside from their ability to operate fairly well in extreme temperatures, lead-acid batteries don’t have many benefits compared to more modern battery technology. They’re heavy, not particularly energy ...

The first modern electronic digital computer was called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. It was built by physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, in 1942 ...

FELDKIRCHEN, Germany (dpa) – What do a computer and a coffeemaker have in common? Both have a chip inside to make them do what they do. It’s at the root of the reason why choosing the right chip is ...

Today we're going to talk about a fundamental part of all modern computers. Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're ...

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks.

Most modern computers, even devices with disk encryption, are vulnerable to a new attack that can steal sensitive data in a matter of minutes, new research says. In new findings published Wednesday, F ...

If you had sat down with a musician in 1976 and told them the entire way they approach recording, tracking, […] ...

It’s natural to quickly imagine the distant future, or an alternate, Marvel-like universe where quantum computing and quantum mechanics truly belong. The truth is, quantum computers are more real than ...

Security researchers will detail today a new variation of a cold boot attack that can meddle with a computer's firmware to disable security measures and allow an attacker to recover sensitive data ...

One school still believes kids should learn about the floppy disk. See also: This computer can tell what people are thinking instantaneously Redditor TeacherTish, a teacher at an elementary private ...

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Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Security researchers have discovered a ...