Computers have always been and still are improving human intelligence and simplifying life. Despite being created for mathematical calculations, it quickly showed amazing promise in a variety of ...

Are you old enough to remember the floppy disk? Take a moment to enjoy the evolution of computers as seen through Jeff Hay’s 19-year history with a company called Contoso, that sure looks a lot like ...

The Oxford comma. “Ask” instead of “aks.” There, their, and they’re. The legitimacy of “ain’t” and “y’all.” These are familiar, if sometimes contentious, issues in the usage of the English language.

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity. But if you were ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

The standard desktop monitor today has a resolution of 2560×1600. This artwork shows two dozen or so of its most recent ancestors. As the resolutions on our computer screens have grown larger, the ...