Are you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage ...

50 years ago, Bill Gates wrote an "Open Letter to Hobbyists" in which he denounced the unauthorized distribution of Micro-Soft's 4K BASIC. 50 years ago, the then twenty-year-old Bill Gates typed an ...

Image of the Throne Toilet Computer perched on the side of a toilet. (Daniel Cooper for Engadget) Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer ...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...

If you work at Costco or happen to have walked by one of their computers and wondered if you've traveled back in time, you're not alone. It's not only a phenomenon at Costco, as Home Depot and many ...

When your system suddenly stops responding, the first thing to do is to wait a minute. Rebooting is useful, as it clears temporary files, refreshes system memory, and resolves a surprising number of ...

When we first saw [DiPDoT’s] homebrew computer, we thought it was an Altair 8800. But, no. While it has a very familiar front panel, the working parts are all based on relays. While it isn’t finished, ...

There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...

Earthwise Productions presents jazz pianist Kenny Werner in a solo show Aug. 1 at the Palo Alto Art Center. Courtesy Kenny Werner. Pianist, composer, educator and author Kenny Werner comes to Palo ...