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

He was completely unaware that this one minor character would attain a massive cult following amongst Star Wars fans, purely ...

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is "now ...

Barbara Babbage Stanley passed away on October 9, 2025, at the age of 83. Beloved mother of Jennifer Pias, of Saratoga Springs, New York, and grandmother of Zachary Spahr of Washington DC, Sophie Hage ...

While the Dartmouth workshop in 1956 is the official birthplace of AI, it wasn’t the first time that people had thought about building thinking machines. However, without access to computers, there ...

Is it hyperbolic to say that humanity is entering a new age with AI? And what does that mean? Well, for one thing, many of those who think deeply about IT would contrast the twentieth century, as the ...

Tucked away 90 feet underground lay thousands of records in a unique collection at the University. The collection tells the history of one of the most remarkable advances in human civilization – ...

Few nineteenth century inventions have had as much influence on modern technology as Charles Babbage’s calculating engines, which anticipated key aspects of today’s computers. In 1871, the Times ...

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) has refurbished and extended a landmark 1970s building for the University of Plymouth Originally built in 1973 as a general teaching building for the University of ...

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...

AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held at the Science Museum on December 13, Dr. L. H. D. Buxton read a paper on Charles Babbage and his difference engine, during which he gave a sketch of the ...