The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...

Before the computer existed, a deeper question had to be answered: could human reasoning itself be reduced to a machine? This video traces the philosophical and mechanical steps, from Leibniz to ...

Modern computing is often effortless. You pick up a calculator or open the calculator app on your phone, and you’re on your way in seconds. But getting here took humans several centuries from when ...

Herman Hollerith's punch-card machinery, created for the 1890 census, became the foundation for the company later known as IBM. IBM secured a major government contract to process the first Social ...

The UK government has announced the formation of an Online Crime Centre – which will commence operations in April – to form a nexus in the fight against cyber fraud and disrupt the gangs behind the ...

The only surviving photographs of 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace have been snapped up by the National Portrait Gallery in London after going up for auction at Bonhams. The group of three ...

Coding, also known as computer programming, is the process of translating human instructions into a language that tells machines what, how, and when to perform those tasks. When instructing a computer ...

One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP - a Northamptonshire transport company - is just one of ...

It seems like a marvel that the world’s first digital computer, which included about every key concept of the current digital computer in its mechanical and logical features, was created in the 1830s.

Banks and tech firms are coming together in an initiative to share information on fraud to give them visibility of the attacks targeted at customers. The collaboration is part of Stop Scams UK’s ...

I've been playing video games almost my entire life, with a particular preference for RPGs, Strategy Games, and 3D Platformers. When I'm not writing or gaming, I usually work on my own game projects ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...