Innovation stems from the minds of individuals who recognize a need and strive to develop a new way to fill it. One such innovation was the difference engine, an automatic mechanical calculator ...

This is a working Difference Engine No. 2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Charles Babbage designed a Difference Engine, which is one of the earliest computation machines — some ...

Something crazy happened in the last 36 hours. Literally three tech startup events happened in London, each with multiple startups attempting to get real product out into the marketplace. However, ...

British researchers are about to spend 10 years and millions of dollars to build a pretty crappy computer, reports the New York Times. The device is slow and humongous -- the opposite of we would look ...

When manufacturers participate in motorsport series such as Formula 1, they always preach about wanting the championship regulations to provide road relevance to the cars they sell to the public. Not ...

Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control. Just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the Molekule air purifier. A ...

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 ...

NOT to belittle the success Tesla Motors has had with its Model S luxury electric car—outselling its petrol-powered equivalents since being launched last year—the prospects for battery-powered ...

In this article, Stoney deGeyter clears up the confusion regarding the difference between making a site search engine friendly vs search engine optimized. There is a lot of confusion about what makes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the intersection of games and technology. This photo depicts a section of the "Difference Engine," a mechanical ...