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Mountain View, California, Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading institution decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity, is hosting

Watch the event on YouTube on January 24 at 7 p.m. Pacific.

"Bell Labs, the historic headwaters of so many inventions that now define our digital age, is closing in Murray Hill," writes journalism professor Jeff Jarvis (in an op-ed for New Jerseys Star-Ledger newspaper). "The Labs should be preserved as a historic site and more." I propose that Bell Labs...

The top anniversaries to celebrate in 2024

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work.

New submitter axlash writes: It has been reported on X that Niklaus Wirth, inventor and co-inventor of several languages including Pascal, Euler and Oberon, died on Jan 1, 2024. He was aged 89. "We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware desi...

How long can Google hold on to its jackpot of business models?

This mid-century modern home in Watchung NJ was built for an artist and filmmaker. It's now on the market for $1.7 million. Check out the interior.

Until Warnock and Adobe came along, desktop printing was an arduous, expensive and unsatisfying endeavor. Warnock developed protocols that came loaded into desktop printers themselves, and that accurately rendered what a computer sent them.

As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.