IBM’s Deep Blue computer, and the world chess champion Garry Kasparov). Enough of Eniac had survived at Penn to perform some work: Vice President Al Gore threw a switch and the remaining pieces ...

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The most expensive computers ever built have an eye watering price tag and some seriously impressive performance metrics.

Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video ...

Dvice recently published a visual history of the computer mouse, which is quite interesting. The first pointing device that relied on hand motions to move a cursor was created by the Royal ...

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