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For The First Time, A Quantum Computer Has Been Sent Into Space

An international team of researchers has developed a photonic quantum computer designed to operate in the harsh environment of space. The computer was integrated into a satellite and launched into ...
TechSpot

What was the first computer program to have AI (and on what hardware did it run)?

One of the earliest and most influential examples of artificial intelligence was Christopher Strachey's draughts (checkers) program, developed between 1951 and 1952. Strachey, a schoolmaster and ...
Hackaday

The Setun Was A Ternary Computer From The USSR In 1958

[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and ...
Ars Technica

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...
MacRumors

Rare Apple-1 Computer Sells for $375,000

A rare, operational Apple-1 Computer was recently put up for auction, and it ended up selling for $375,000. The Apple-1 was the first computer sold by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...