The Hubble Space Telescope entered its fourth day of inoperation Wednesday after the machinery was hit with computer problems, NASA announced. The technological issues have put all astronomical ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

Should you travel around Europe, you may notice that things in France are ever so slightly different. Not necessarily better or worse, simply that the French prefer to plough their own furrow rather ...

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies, died ...

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The Computer History Museum (CHM) has, with Adobe's permission, released the source code for an early version of PostScript, a programming language developed in the early 1980s by Adobe, which helped ...

Unexpected double lives, mysterious alternate realms, impending environmental doom, tech addiction, the complexities of parent-child relationships, gender fluidity, racial justice—these are just a few ...

In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom graphics and sound chips, four joystick ports, and the ability to run the most advanced home video ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer. The CHM has gained Apple's ...

The history of US animation studios dates back to the early 1900s, with pioneers like Winsor McCay and his groundbreaking work, Gertie the Dinosaur . This era saw the birth of animated storytelling, ...

Today's topic is the rebirth of a nearly 35-year-old classic computer mystery novel. But for now, a bit of how it was birthed in the first place. The year was 1980. The year Pac Man debuted. Former ...