Hacking a 2,000-Year-Old Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that's baffled scientists for a century, finally yields its secrets. In Gear Factor.
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A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system.
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A MAN WHO made money making rock music a long time ago has recorded a long playing record using a dual Opteron workstation. AMD said that Mark Knopfler,a hack
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Ingenious hacks abound for the game console's input device. Plus: The
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The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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How your computer could be costing you thousands of dollars.
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Historical inventions like the compass and the Leyden jar join mythical gadgets like the Ark of the Covenant -- rumored to be a sort of early battery -- and outright hoaxes like the Mechanical Turk in this eclectic list of ancient innovation.
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The modern PC is a marvel, a machine that lets an ordinary person with little training create a document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically to someone across the globe - and then save it accidentally into some dark
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By Peter Svensson  It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
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AS WE PREDICTED last week after a weekend free time, hackers have come up with a method of exploiting the latest hole in Microsoft Windows.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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By Tampone, Kevin  SYRACUSE - For those outside the world of information technology, mainframe computers that fill entire rooms may seem like relics of a bygone era.
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Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for more than 1 million people, many of them recipients of an assistance program for the elderly.
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Thin-client computing has been around for a decade, but the rising costs of updating software and installing security patches on networked personal computers is sparking renewed interest
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Massively parallel processor to 'change the world', apparently
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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Gordon Rugg cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript. Next up: everything from Alzheimer's to the origins of the universe. By Joseph D'Agnese from Wired magazine.