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In 1987, a student set out to fix a Mac problem, but the code spiraled out of control, and he ended up creating PhotoshopA simple fix for a grayscale problem by Thomas Knoll led to the creation of Photoshop. His brother John saw its potential, and together the...- Lord Shiva's ‘oldest prayer’ uncovered: Shiv Trilogy author Amish Tripathi shares how a techie decoded a 4,500-year-old Pashupati sealA computer scientist's cryptographic analysis of the Pashupati Seal suggests its inscription is an ancient invocation to Lord Shiva, aligni...
- Goodbye to the myth that Tanystropheus hunted on land: CT scans suggest a stranger life in the seaPaleontologists have long debated the Tanystropheus, a prehistoric creature with an unusually long neck. Recent CT scans of its skull revea...
- At 15, a teenager building video games from his bedroom accidentally helped create one of the internet’s earliest coding communitiesIn the days prior to the internet, enthusiastic young hackers relied on floppy disks to trade their innovative programs. Bulletin board sys...
- In 1963, Douglas Engelbart imagined people physically controlling computers with their hands: And helped create the computer mouseIn the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart envisioned interactive computers. He developed the computer mouse, a wooden prototype with wheels, which al...
- In 1994, Pierre Omidyar built a simple auction website during a holiday weekend, and ended up creating eBayIn 1995, Pierre Omidyar launched AuctionWeb, a primitive auction site, revolutionizing online commerce. This platform, later known as eBay,...
- Grace Hopper Found the First Computer “Bug”- a Real OneA literal moth found in a 1947 computer led Rear Admiral Grace Hopper to coin the term "debugging." This incident, though humorous, highlig...
- A dinosaur, Steve Jobs' first Apple computer and a rock from Mars are going for saleSotheby's "Geek Week" auction in New York showcases a diverse collection of rare and significant items. Highlights include a Ceratosaurus s...
- New Apple museum opens in Warsaw, to bring 1,600 exhibits including Lisa, iMac, Power MacThe museum is housed in Fabryka Norblina, a red-brick factory from the early 19th century.
- AI pioneer Raj Reddy honoured by Silicon Valley’s Computer History MuseumRaj Reddy, an Indian-American professor and researcher, has been honoured for his contribution towards revolutionising artificial intellige...
- Silicon Valley inventor of 'cut, copy and paste' diesBronx-born Lawrence "Larry" Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut, cop...
- Central Vista makeover: North, South Blocks likely to reflect India's pre and post-1857 historyAt present, the South Block houses the Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs, while the North Block...
- IIT alumnus launches accelerator to help IIT startups in USThe initiative is to provide mentorship, incubation and other necessary support to the budding entrepreneurs and to connect the IIT alumni ...
- Wolf-sized otters roamed Earth over 6 million years ago
- Tesla Model 3 owners won’t get free supercharging for life, says Elon Musk“Free Supercharging fundamentally has a cost,” Musk, 44, said on Tuesday during Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting, held at the Computer H...
- Apple computer hand-built by Steve Jobs to fetch 330,000 poundsThe Apple-1 Computer motherboard was in the first batch of computers for Apple's first client, the Byte Shop, originally costing just 437 p...
- Apple computer that Steve Jobs programmed fetches $365,000 at Christie's New York auctionA rare Apple-1 computer personally sold by the company's co-founder Steve Jobs nearly 40 years ago has fetched a whopping $365,000 at an au...
- There’s history & money in retro PCsGrowing band of collectors considers old computers as important relics & even good investment
- Silicon Valley needs to upgrade memory cacheGoogle and Apple have had a profound impact on contemporary history but there are few obvious landmarks in Silicon Valley celebrating the m...
- Sun buys Hewlett and PackardIn a nicely crafted PR stunt, Sun Microsystems recently announced that it purchased Hewlett and Packard for a little over $6,000 reports UK...
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