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 computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...
Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human ...
From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...
When the Mac arrived in 1984, it introduced a new way to use computers—visual, intuitive, and accessible. On Apple's 50th, we ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca never built a world of silicon chips or copper-wired circuits, and the high-speed hardware of modern times was something they simply didn’t ...
The open-source software underlying critical infrastructure — from financial systems to public utilities to emergency services and electronic health records — is vulnerable to malicious cyberattacks.
After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the ...
Perplexity launched ‘Personal Computer,’ an AI agent that runs on M4 Mac mini servers and integrates local applications with enhanced security features. According to Macworld, this follows the trend ...
Through the looking glass: When software historians talk about preserving the roots of modern computing, they usually mean source code or documentation. Now, they can mean the computers themselves – ...