The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see ...

Any computer-based device that accepts different applications. All mainframes, servers, laptop and desktop computers, as well as smartphones and tablets are general-purpose devices. In contrast, chips ...

(WHTM) – Pennsylvania has been home to many firsts to happen in America or even in the world so of course it’s home to the world’s first general-purpose computer. The name of the computer was ENIAC ...

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...

I bought an 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 as soon as they went up for preorder, just like I have bought every full-size Pi model since the Pi 3 Model B launched back in 2016, including the Pi 3B+, with its ...

The race is on to scale up quantum computing, transforming it from an esoteric research tool into a commercially viable, general-purpose machine. Special-purpose quantum computers have been available ...

Computers have become an essential part of our everyday lives. Students are using computers daily through their need to attend online classes, play games, searching information, or do their school ...

[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics ...