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A steel bar pivots. A spring stretches. Then, with a small shove, the whole setup flips into a new state and stays there until the next push. That simple motion sits at the heart of a mechanical ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.

The TSR-2’s navigation problem could not be solved with old analog methods, so its designers turned to a digital computer to ...

One different decision back in the early 2000s could have had an enormous impact.

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way ...

A more than $500 million-dollar project to dismantle a historic nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Mobile has been put on ...