BOSTON—Getting a computer-science degree at Northeastern University is no joke. One class was especially nerve-racking for Colin Mullaney, even more so than theory of computation or object-oriented ...

In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ...

Physicists are beginning to unravel the mysteries of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, particles accelerated by the most powerful forces in the universe. Read Later On the night of October 15, 1991, the ...

Calculating availability correctly can be confusing but high availability expert Evan Marcus explains how it should be calculated and what factors need to be brought into the equation. Evan runs ...