As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real intellectual discovery. “There’s some instinct or ...

People who visit a computer store this fall will see row after row of beige machines. And then there will be the Acers. In an effort to boost sales, Acer, a Taiwanese PC firm, has become the first to ...

Take an outline map of the lower 48 U.S. states and four crayons. Can you shade in the map so that every state is a different color than each of its neighbors, without resorting to a fifth color? This ...

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Silicon Valley and the technology industry are notoriously homogenous. People of color and women remain underrepresented at many companies. But a relatively new computer science club at Bowdoin is ...

The Tandy Color Computer came with analog joysticks, quite unlike most computers and consoles of the early 1980s. Many games of the era actually worked best with digital input, so [Gadget Reboot] ...

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