German engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse is considered as the inventor of the modern computer but was frustrated in his attempts to secure a patent ...

Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of ...

The iconoclastic inventor father of the home micro has died aged 81. I was probably the ideal customer for Clive Sinclair when he got started in the electronics business. He was keen to build a ...

William "Bill" English, the engineer who helped create the first computer mouse, died July 26 in California. He was 91. With the mouse, English — alongside his partner, Douglas Engelbart, who died in ...

If you've ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now's the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to ...

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programs and the Internet, has died at the age of 88. The Computer History Museum in ...

Depending on who you believe, computer scientist Craig Wright is either the mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto — one of the most influential men of the modern age and the 15 th wealthiest ...

Adam Osborne, the man behind the first portable computer, has died. He sold tens of thousands of the Osborne-1, which at 23 pounds barely qualified as portable, and then jinxed himself by making a ...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak calls Engelbart a god and visionary. July 3, 2013 — -- Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the ...

Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new computer keyboard that would allow for the additional connection of a wired USB mouse or other USB computer accessory," said an ...