The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to leave the heliosphere?

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Apple’s MacBook Neo is the laptop I’ve been waiting for and one I thought might never show up. With a starting price of $599 (or $499 with an education discount), the MacBook Neo is the most exciting ...

Need a new monitor for your PC? I’ve combed through scores of options to find the best monitors on the market right now. These picks are the result of hundreds of hours spent testing the latest models ...

Whether you're a tech junkie or a casual user who's seen every era of computing, you likely have plenty of old devices in your home. Maybe it's a desk drawer or closet filled with ancient laptops, ...

Nothing lasts forever, including the batteries that power our favorite electronics. The good news is that Windows laptops have a (roundabout) way of tracking whether your battery is still functioning ...

The highly structured interface of yWriter can help anyone, from budding to experienced novelists, get a real handle on their story and its characters. The program is full of stats on what you have ...

The first part of the code generates an HTML file containing the battery life report. The second part, in quotes, dictates where the file will be saved on your computer and what it will be called. In ...