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Mark Richards07Arnold Nordsieck and Richard Norberg created this Differential Analyzer in 1956 to solve equations in physics.
Mark Richards08The Nordsieck/Norberg Differential Analyzer featured multiple computation units allowing for addition, integration and multiplication mounted on a rolling table. Electrical signals connected the units via servos.
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Mark Richards12Herman Hollerith developed this 1890 tabulation machine for the Census Bureau. Holes punched in a card represented census results, with the card placed in a press that counted the holes. In 1911, Hollerith sold his patents for the machine to the Computing, Tabulating, and Recording Company, which eventually became IBM.
An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’
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Isabella Ward
How This Tiny Startup Built the World’s Safest Bike Helmet
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A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology
“Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.
Javier Carbajal
This Was the Most Fun I’ve Had Reviewing a Mouse in a Long Time
With a tactile dongle for on-the-fly customization and a metal chassis, the Wallhack M-001 is the most fun I've had reviewing a gaming mouse in a long time.
Henri Robbins
Turtle Beach’s Vulcan II XP Is a Flashy Keyboard With a Flawed Finish
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Under 1 million years old, “Elias 2-24b” is now the youngest exoplanet ever observed, and it may force researchers to reevaluate theories about how planets are formed.
Teruyuki Hayakawa
Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark
Researchers took lessons from nocturnal animals to help rescue drones overcome a key challenge: flying in the dark.
Ritsuko Kawai
Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.
Fernanda González
This Preamp Costs More Than a Fancy Sports Car
Goldmund’s $240,000 Mimesis Statement is an exercise in extreme Swiss sound engineering—and only one part of a $1.5 million audio setup.
Simon Lucas
A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs
Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.
Emily Mullin