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

Lately, my life has felt like a whirlwind of overlapping roles. I’m an IT consultant by trade, deeply invested in human ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art's ambitious effort to rewrite art history is largely a grab bag of disparate stuff.

Underrated Google apps such as Photomath, Lookout, and Arts & Culture show that Google’s impressive Android lineup extends ...

World War II history buffs can learn new details at a talk called "The War Within a War," about the intense rivalries between ...

A definition should specify, in a clear and non-redundant way: a universe (a set); and a criterion for selecting some elements of the universe. The principles that make the Internet work so well can ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. At this point, computers have gone well beyond their initial mandate of, as the name suggests, computing. They're doors to virtual worlds, a ...

This folder contains the programs found in the March 1975 3rd printing of David Ahl's 101 BASIC Computer Games, published by Digital Equipment Corp. You can download ...

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on a ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...