Aside from their ability to operate fairly well in extreme temperatures, lead-acid batteries don’t have many benefits compared to more modern battery technology. They’re heavy, not particularly energy ...

Computer chipmakers have spent years strengthening processors against attacks that exploit the way modern CPUs predict what they will need to do next. But MIT researchers have discovered a new ...

When people hear the word cyberattack, they usually imagine someone guessing a password, planting malware, stealing a computer, hacking an organization’s network or exploiting a flaw in software. A ...

There have been many computers that played a little jingle to greet you upon booting. The NEC PC-9800 is a famous example, though almost all the Macintosh computers played either the soothing “booting ...

Computing is often celebrated for its precision and speed. But researchers and hyperscale data center operators are warning of a growing threat that challenges one of computing’s core promises: ...

See a slideshow of images of Baby and its creators The first computer to be built using the same fundamental plans that underpin modern PCs has reached its 60th anniversary. The Small Scale ...

Year after year technology improves, and with the most powerful phones the public has ever had, it makes one wonder if Apollo 11 could have even run Doom.