SMALL. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE IN MASS. WHAT YOU’RE WATCHING IS A MANUFACTURING PROCESS KNOWN AS THICK FILM TECHNOLOGY. THINK HIGH TECH T SHIRT SCREEN PRINTING, IF YOU WILL. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, WHAT ...

It used to be simple: Multiply the microprocessor’s clock rate by four, and you could measure a computer’s computational power in megaFLOPS (millions of floating point operations per second) or ...

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Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...

Maria Ryan receives funding from the British Academy. One aspect of Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan that has been largely overlooked is her meeting with Mark Lui, chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor ...

The title of "world's smallest computer" is a contentious one – and not just because scientists are racing to shrink devices, but because the very definition of a computer could be up for debate. The ...

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You didn't think scientists would let IBM's "world's smallest computer" boast go unchallenged, did you? Sure enough, University of Michigan has produced a temperature sensing 'computer' measuring 0.04 ...

The Homebrew Computer Club where the Apple I got its start is deservedly famous—but it’s far from tech history’s only community gathering centered on CPUs. Throughout the 70s and into the 90s, groups ...

THE HISTORY Of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine up through the code-breaking machines of World War II. In fact, it is better understood as a ...