The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

A collection of Steve Jobs' earliest Apple products and personal memorabilia are up for auction to mark the tech company's ...

Employees of a waste disposal company were clearing out a U.K. home late last year when they made an accidental—and valuable—discovery. After stumbling upon some old boxes, they resurfaced a Q1 ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...

In that spirit, we asked several Computerworld editors to share stories of their first PCs. While most of us joined the ranks of PC owners during the ’80s, one editor didn’t buy his first computer ...

A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

Even in the early days of computers in the 1960s, there were already groups of teenagers who were computer enthusiasts. IEEE Spectrum introduces the activities of one of these early computer clubs, ...