When Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Microsoft set out to make the Windows operating system, they could have had no idea of how popular it would become. Shortly after its launch in 1985, it exploded in use ...

Robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs. At the start of the simulation, a biped ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

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This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we have a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for some time. The topic this week is quantum computers. It is quite a niche topic and finding people who actually ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, a general rule that is central to the ...

Q: I keep all my financial records in a program I wrote in 1988, using dBASE III file structure (.dbf) and compiled it with Clipper, DOS version. I run it on old hardware under Windows XP. My other ...

The shift to digitally networked societies, where daily activities are interlinked with the help of computer-based systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies, is having a huge ...