There’s “green energy” and then there’s truly GREEN energy, or rather, blue-green energy. A colorful colony of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, have successfully powered a ...

For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

Q: What do I need to do to protect my computer from the microprocessor flaws? A: The Meltdown and Spectre processor security flaws, which many are calling the worst processor bug ever, should be of ...

Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers. On December 5, ...

The Intel Corp., confirming what some of its customers have already announced, last week formally introduced a 50-megahertz version of the i486 DX microprocessor. The new chip becomes the fastest and ...

Dan Geiger has created a new learning platform which has been specifically designed to teach you how a computer works at the most fundamental level, and even allows you to program in machine language ...

A Redwood City company has devised a way to make one desktop PC run up to seven workstations -- each with its own keyboard, monitor and mouse -- by sharing a single microprocessor. The Xtenda card ...

The keyboard on which I’m currently typing does not often let me type a plus sign. I mean, I don’t regularly need to – I’m not writing code or doing arithmetic, and I avoid Excel like the plague upon ...

Microprocessors are the engines performing the logic functions that make computers, cell phones and countless other indispensable electronic gadgets run. Improvements in microprocessor speed and power ...