Today we are very used to running a rich variety of operating systems and programs on our mobile devices, from Office on a Windows laptop to a game on our Android smartphones, we are accustomed to ...

Visualizing how electronic signals work can be difficult. A physical model can be darn useful in overcoming that difficulty. At a recent workshop entitled “Unboxing Black Boxes” [Julian Hespenheide’s] ...

Computer games have been around about as long as computers have. And though it may be hard to believe, Zork, a text-based adventure game, was the Fortnite of its time. But Zork is more than that. For ...

BIG UPDATES FOR LITTLEBITS: littleBits, a New York-based hardware startup that creates electronic building blocks for kids, has a simple mission for its latest product: Let kids build games and learn ...

REMEMBER when Apple launched the iPhone and you first heard people prattling on about things called apps? Back then, there were just a few hundred applications to choose from – a shortage that looked ...