The idea of controlling something outside of your body using just your mind sounds like science fiction, but it’s slowly becoming science reality through the brain-computer interface. This isn’t ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

The evolution of computer graphics is something that has been well documented over the years, and it’s a topic that we always enjoy revisiting with our retrocomputing readers. To wit, [Stephen A.

From a pair of simple principles of evolution--chance mutation and natural selection--nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, ...

Creating synthetic life could be easily within our grasp soon based on a comparison with the evolution of computer chips. Computer programming and gene synthesis appear to share little in common. But ...

For 40 years or so, we've used computer monitors to work with our desktops and laptops. But as as head-mounted displays advance, how we see the online world is going to change. (Disclosure: All of the ...

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

Platform engineering, which takes the concepts behind DevOps and applies them at a grander scale, continues to grow its reach, extending into troubleshooting security problems across enterprise ...