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The computer was born not for entertainment or email but out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis. By 1880, the U.S. population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster way to get the job done, giving rise to punch-card based computers that took up entire rooms. Today, we carry more computing power on our smartphones than was available in these early models. The following brief history of computing is a timeline of how computers evolved from their humble beginnings to the machines of today that surf the  Internet , play games and stream multimedia in addition to crunching numbers. https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html

The Antikythera Mechanism – A Greek Ancient Computer that is part of a number of different mysterious ancient artifacts that cannot be properly explained. To celebrate these strange items, we will be looking at some of the more interesting ones, starting with the Antikythera Mechanism.

As computers have gotten more powerful, they’ve completely transformed how we explore the solar system. And along the way, the space industry has given computer science a boost too.

We recap the upcoming PC hardware trends for 2017, leading into 2018. Many of these are from Computex, just like we did last year.

The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.