Legendary software pioneer Bill Atkinson died at the age of 74 on Thursday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a Facebook post, his family said the cause of his ...

He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic. By Steve Lohr Frederick P. Brooks Jr., ...

Arm, based in the UK, has given Qualcomm a mandated 60-day notice of the cancellation of their so-called architectural license agreement, according to a document seen by Bloomberg. The contract allows ...

Jim Keller, Tesla’s former head of Autopilot hardware and the designer of Tesla’s Self-Driving Computer chip, says that he is confident about solving autonomous driving after working at Tesla. We ...

At the big-think, big-demo TED conference in Long Beach last week, MIT Media Lab alumnus John Underkoffler demonstrated a real working version of the memorable grab-it-and-throw-it computer interface ...

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 ...

Over on YouTube [CuriousMarc] and [TubeTimeUS] team up for a multi-part series E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Restoration. The E&L MMD-1 is a microcomputer trainer and breadboard for the ...