NOT to belittle the success Tesla Motors has had with its Model S luxury electric car—outselling its petrol-powered equivalents since being launched last year—the prospects for battery-powered ...

British researchers are about to spend 10 years and millions of dollars to build a pretty crappy computer, reports the New York Times. The device is slow and humongous -- the opposite of we would look ...

EVEN at the cheapest petrol station in your correspondent's neighborhood, filling up the family kidmobile with premium (91 octane) fuel now costs over $70. As the meter clocks up dizzying dollar ...

Something crazy happened in the last 36 hours. Literally three tech startup events happened in London, each with multiple startups attempting to get real product out into the marketplace. However, ...

An early calculator designed by Charles Babbage and subsidized by the British government. Employing wheels and rods, which others had experimented with earlier, the project was started in 1821 but ...

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that the date of the public opening of the exhibit is May 10. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--"Excuse me, Richard, we have a very large parcel." With those ...

This is a working Difference Engine No. 2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Charles Babbage designed a Difference Engine, which is one of the earliest computation machines — some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the intersection of games and technology. This photo depicts a section of the "Difference Engine," a mechanical ...

In this article, Stoney deGeyter clears up the confusion regarding the difference between making a site search engine friendly vs search engine optimized. There is a lot of confusion about what makes ...

This is the first printing calculator sold. From ancient times, scientists and mathematicians have calculated numerical tables. These tables were often rife with error, both from incorrect ...