Here’s yet another doodad that nobody asked for: a laptop with a typical landscape screen that mechanically unrolls into a tall, portrait mode. It increases its vertical resolution so you can, say, ...

Via aims to make customization easier and shorten design cycles by releasing the design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under open source license Via Technologies released the hardware design ...

Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to “commercialize” some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in ...

One of the most popular of Joshua Wilkinson’s designs is a Whataburger-themed computer. He plans to make an updated version using straws throughout the rig. As electronic sports are becoming more ...

Monica Chin is a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom’s Guide and Business Insider before joining The Verge in 2020. It was not too long ago that most gaming ...

These lectures start off by reviewing the different types of numbering systems commonly used in the computer industry. In addition to going over binary, the lecturer also explains hexadecimal and ...

The past decade has been kind to the laptop. Few computing products have improved in so many ways, to the point where the modern laptop is a different breed of device completely from laptops of a ...

Fifth-year applied physics Ph.D. candidate Ben Bartlett, postdoctoral scholar Avik Dutt and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan proposed a new computer hardware design in November that could, ...

Give jewelry designer Angie Atkins an old computer's motherboard, and she'll see in it the mother lode. The Montclair mother of three fashions jewelry from the tiny treasures she finds hidden in the ...

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died Nov. 17 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was ...