Before electronic computers became the backbone of modern science, complex aerospace calculations were done by hand, ...

There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft server on it, so he did. After a lot of work, ...

My father’s first job after graduating University of Pennsylvania law school in the 1950s was not in law, but computer programming. In 1956, the U.S. Social Security Administration installed a massive ...

Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to leave the heliosphere? [Gary Friedman] shows us, with an archived tour of JPL building 230 in the ’80s ...

Anthropic is trialling a feature that lets users send prompts to Claude from a smartphone. Claude will complete the task on its own on a person's computer. Anthropic's product underscores its push ...

Perplexity launched ‘Personal Computer,’ an AI agent that runs on M4 Mac mini servers and integrates local applications with enhanced security features. According to Macworld, this follows the trend ...

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...

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While the 1950s sparked a downturn in general “independent adventure” for kids, according to research professor Peter Gray, largely because of the introduction of television, adult-led sports, and the ...