I grew up in the 1990s. Like many suburban schools of that era, my high school invested in a computer lab for its students. The lab had a scanner, an early webcam, and a bevy of Mac Classics running ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

Next time you get frustrated with your computer because it won’t obey your command in less than a second, you might want to remember just what exactly is going on behind that screen. Technology is so ...

(via SciShow) There's a list of the 500 most powerful computers on Earth, and we're downloading the details on the top five.

Quantum computers don’t just crunch numbers—they redefine how we understand computing itself. In this video, we break down how qubits, superposition, and entanglement power the most advanced machines ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The performance of natural language models such as ChatGPT is deeply impressive. The performance of another one of these models, the one called "human,"is at least as impressive. The human model ...