In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.

From beige boxes to cultural icons, the history of computers shows what happens when design meets emerging tech. Robotics is ...

Florida's sales tax holiday for back-to-school shoppers is officially underway. Shoppers can avoid paying sales taxes on ...

New Words for the Computer Generation Personal computers exploded in the early 1980s. In 1982, kids were coloring in "The Computer Coloring Book," created by the author of this encyclopedia.

Though many personal computers in the early 1970s were much cheaper, the most basic model of an HP 3000 sold for $95,000 in 1972, the equivalent of slightly over half a million in today’s dollars.

If you take the term ‘computer’ to mean that which can crunch big numbers fairly quickly, then the Canadian-made MCM/70 is arguably the first personal computer in that it is portable, has an ...

Some users, horrified, pointed out the very name, “personal computer”, meant the machine fell under their control. Their desk, their desktop.

Indeed, a recent study by the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center estimated that 20.6 million personal computers became obsolete in the U.S. in 1998, but only 11 percent, or 2.3 ...

One of only ten surviving Kenbak-1 personal computers from 1971 has sold at auction for €34,000 (US$36,500). Judged the "first commercially available personal computer" in 1987 by a panel at the ...

Nearly four in 10 (39.7 percent) of households with personal computers and kids owned a videogame system in 2001, compared to 39.2 percent in 2002.

Personal Computers and the Economy: The Importance of 2010Author: Eric Everson, MBA, MSIT-SE – MyMobiSafe.comA global view of the economy points to uncertainty around the world, but some ...