This bizarre mechanical computer has no wires or chips. It has no wires, no silicon chips, and needs zero electricity. Yet, ...

In A Nutshell A physicist built a device from ordinary bars and springs that can count, store memory, and process information ...

A steel bar pivots. A spring stretches. Then, with a small shove, the whole setup flips into a new state and stays there until the next push. That simple motion sits at the heart of a mechanical ...

Four years after Apple killed off the iPod, secondhand sales are surging fueled in part by young people interested in ...

If someone told you that you could retire comfortably in Connecticut on just Social Security, you’d probably laugh and ask ...

The heat first comes off the CPU and GPU, which sit below a metal plate and a layer of TIM (aka Thermal Interface Material).

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...