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

Photographer John Short captured some of the most influential designs in the early history of personal computing for a new book, “Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation.” ...

Employees of a waste disposal company were clearing out a U.K. home late last year when they made an accidental—and valuable—discovery. After stumbling upon some old boxes, they resurfaced a Q1 ...

One of Apple's earliest personal computers, the Apple-1, which was signed by the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak, has successfully fetched over $223,000 at an auction. According to the Associated ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...

Ada Lovelace, arguably the first computer programmer, was born 200 years ago today. She worked with Charles Babbage on one of the earliest computers in 1843. A portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret ...