The advent of the laptop was obviously a huge turning point in the personal computer industry, allowing people to carry powerful computing experiences with them wherever they went. Notebook computers ...

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has unveiled what it claims is the world’s smallest computer--the size of a grain of salt. The computer will cost less than $0.10 to manufacture, and is intended for logistics applications. The device ...

When so-called “minicomputers” first appeared in the 1970s, they supplanted mainframes on a scale of size and cost expressed by Bell’s Law, which holds that a new class of smaller, cheaper computers ...

It’s a truly modern irony: As our technological ambitions grow, our computers keep on shrinking. At the IBM’s Think Conference on Monday, the company unveiled the latest affirmation of this adage: the ...

The miniaturization of electronics has been progressing steadily for decades, but IBM just took a major leap. The company has created what it's calling the world's smallest computer, and it’s the size ...