You've probably heard the announcement on airplanes: "Turn off your laptop computers and other electronic devices." The reason is that radio frequency can leak from improperly shielded electronics, ...

Deep in the bowels of a lab older than the internet itself, engineers have been toiling away at an enormous scientific and engineering challenge: How to create the hardware poised to set off the next ...

In context: Harvard University officially introduced the Harvard Mark I computer on August 7, 1944. Also known as the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator or ASCC, the computer was the brainchild ...