I grew up in the 1990s. Like many suburban schools of that era, my high school invested in a computer lab for its students. The lab had a scanner, an early webcam, and a bevy of Mac Classics running ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

(via SciShow) There's a list of the 500 most powerful computers on Earth, and we're downloading the details on the top five.

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

In June, an IBM computing executive claimed quantum computers were entering the "utility" phase, in which high-tech experimental devices become useful. In September, Australia's Chief Scientist Cathy ...

Professor and computer scientist David J. Malan joins WIRED to answer your computer and programming questions from Twitter. How do search engines compile information so quickly? Which operating system ...

INDIANAPOLIS — It's not every day you come across someone who knows how to code a computer, especially if that person is an elementary student. At Indianapolis Public Schools' Ernie Pyle Elementary ...