PCs do thousands of years of work
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A global grid of desktop PCs clocks up 4,000 years worth of scientific calculations in under three months.
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By Moises, Christian  Heavy workloads, traveling and working from home have made many workers dependent on laptop computers.
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For the first time in more years than I care to think about, I have been playing around with PCs that have no hard drives.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines&#39; silicon brains.
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The blueprint for a tiny, rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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Most machines don't improve with use. Old pickup trucks don't gradually become Ferraris just by driving them fast, and a pocket calculator won't change into a supercomputer by crunching lots of numbers. The human body is different...
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Research work could mean data gets in and out of computer chips at speed of light.
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The Windows you see today was not your mother's Windows. Here's a look at Microsoft's OS through the years.
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Prototype products include the first such drive for use in a PC.
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The last time I browsed the selection of desktops in a computer store, I came down with a case of instant deja vu. Each time I'd spot a thoughtful feature on one company's PC -- say, both USB and FireWire ports on the front or a full set of memory-card slots -- I would look at the machine to its right or left and spot the exact same item.
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How your computer could be costing you thousands of dollars.
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Device uses NCQ technology to prioritize a PC's requests.
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Where will evolution take us Itâs been almost 200 years since Charles Babbage first started work on his difference engine, and programmable computation is fast approaching 100 years old.â¦
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Rural and deprived communities worldwide are benefiting from the increased availability of computers.
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A new computer should deliver about 10 times the performance of a desktop personal computer.
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THE modern PC is a marvel, isn&#39;t it? Here&#39;s a machine that lets an ordinary person with very little training create a new document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically