At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...

Fifth-year applied physics Ph.D. candidate Ben Bartlett, postdoctoral scholar Avik Dutt and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan proposed a new computer hardware design in November that could, ...

Even if you’ve never taken a coding class, you’ve probably heard of computer programming languages like Python, C++, JavaScript, and HTML. (Bonus points if you’re familiar with Swift and PHP.) ...

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died Nov. 17 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...

An interesting new gaming laptop concept is hoping to raise funds on Kickstarter, bringing together a laptop-style form factor using top-spec desktop components. The unique project claims to be the ...

Here’s yet another doodad that nobody asked for: a laptop with a typical landscape screen that mechanically unrolls into a tall, portrait mode. It increases its vertical resolution so you can, say, ...

Via aims to make customization easier and shorten design cycles by releasing the design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under open source license Via Technologies released the hardware design ...

The past decade has been kind to the laptop. Few computing products have improved in so many ways, to the point where the modern laptop is a different breed of device completely from laptops of a ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...