Computers
The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty’
Turns out that cats really don't take direction well
The World Wide Web Was Almost Known as “The Mesh”
The inventor of the World Wide Web had a few different name ideas
After Fans Rallied Around App, Windows Announces It Will Save Microsoft Paint
The classic Windows program responsible for so many wobbly works is getting a new home in the Windows Store
AI Project Produces New Styles of Art
Researchers let two neural networks critique each other to create the images
New Badges Will Make Today's Girl Scouts Tomorrow's Cybersleuths
Camping and cookie sales are just the tip of the iceberg for modern scouts
Three Very Modern Uses For A Nineteenth-Century Text Generator
Andrey Markov was trying to understand poems with math when he created a whole new field of probability studies
This Tool Makes it Easy to Compare Art From Different Museums
IIIF frees images from the confines of individual websites
A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic
How an image format changed the way we communicate
Supercomputers Create Breathtaking Simulations of Spiral Galaxies
The simulations took months of modeling to complete—and the results can help scientists learn about the formation of galaxies
The MP3 Format is Music History's Latest Casualty
The Institute that licenses MP3 tech recently stopped, but the format that began the digital music era may live on indefinitely
Could a Doodle Replace Your Password?
Drawing your own unlock pattern on a touchscreen is faster and easier to remember than a password, and much harder to crack
Scientists Want to Freeze and Pulverize Your Old Computers
E-waste is a growing problem worldwide, but a new method could help take a byte out of the issue
This Artificial Neural Network Generates Absurd Pickup Lines
But the technology probably won't be able to land you a date anytime soon
One Million Internet Users Created This Piece of Art
Contributions range from the juvenile to bizarre to strangely beautiful
A Second Doomsday Vault—This One to to Preserve Data—Is Opening in Svalbard
Known as the Arctic World Archive, it will store copies of books, archives and documents on special film
What Is Dark Matter and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
The Pioneer of Graphic Adventure Games Was a Woman
Mystery House was the first home computer game ever to include graphics as well as text
Computers Are Great at Chess, But That Doesn't Mean the Game Is 'Solved'
On this day in 1996, the computer Deep Blue made history when it beat Garry Kasparov
In One 1968 Presentation, This Inventor Shaped Modern Computing
Douglas Engelbart’s career was about seeing the possibilities of what computing could do for humanity
If Isaac Asimov Had Named The Smartphone, He Might Have Called It The “Pocket Computer Mark II”
The sci-fi author correctly predicted a number of innovations that have come to pass
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