This YouTuber made computer RAM at home, but proved it's a crushingly complex task

The ongoing memory shortage might make you wish you could make RAM at home, but this YouTuber's experiment proves it's not an ...
Singularity Hub

How Was the Wheel Invented? Computer Simulations Reveal Its Unlikely Birth Nearly 6,000 Years Ago

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...
Drexel University

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...
New Scientist

Computer made from swirly magnets can recognise handwritten digits

A new type of computer can use the behaviour of magnetic particles to recognise handwritten digits. If made smaller and faster it should be able to process information in an energy-efficient way.
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...