40 years ago this month, Popular Electronics, a Ziff Davis publication, ushered in the era of the personal computer with its cover story on the Altair 8800. Over the next few days, I'll be posting a ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of that niche kitchen tool you saw at a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. This week’s milestones in the history of technology include ...

March 16, 2009 Although obviously best known for its cars and motorbikes, BMW also creates yachts, aircraft and trains, and has now turned its design expertise to a computer gaming tower with the ...

Quantum computers work according to a completely different concept than conventional computers. This makes them so incredibly fast that they are believed to have the potential to bring about ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997, my reaction was pretty dispassionate: As someone who’s played only a few games of chess in my life, I simply didn’t ...

WTF?! To readers of this site, the idea that some students on courses ranging from engineering to physics don't know what files and folders are might seem strange, but it's true. According to a new ...