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This article was taken from the May 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

YOUNGSTERS in California can start learning to drive when they are 15½ years old. They need to have completed at least 30 hours of driver's education (usually done in high school or online) and to ...

As you might expect from its name, the "Difference Engine" is a strangely difficult object to describe. You might start by imagining the side of a large crib with uprights ringed by small metal wheels ...

For those who haven’t yet heard, a band of number-crunching nostalgists took the concept design for Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, and turned it into a real, fully functional machine. But ...

Englishman Charles Babbage (1791–1871), an eccentric, ingenious mathematician, decided that existing tables of computations included far too many errors: the day's textbooks came with errata sheets ...

*I never realized that Nathan Myhrvold had name-checked the novel that William Gibson and I wrote on Babbage while describing his ten-year struggle to finish two of these machines. That's very ...

An early calculator designed by Charles Babbage and subsidized by the British government. Employing wheels and rods, which others had experimented with earlier, the project was started in 1821 but ...

THE on-going saga of Google sweeping up people’s Wi-Fi transmissions—as its Street View vehicles trundled around the world, snapping panoramic pictures of their surroundings—has focused attention yet ...

Conventional gaming wisdom holds that World of Warcraft is such a lean, mean GPU-conserving machine that it will run on everything from a 386 to a scientific calculator from the early 1970s. Rumor has ...