Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former ...
Travel2Next

20 Things to Do in Palo Alto That Prove It’s More Than Just Tech

Home to a concentration of the world's leading tech companies, here are some of the top things to do in Palo Alto.
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How Books Helped Make Computers Mainstream

“For computers to become widespread, people first had to imagine what they were, what they could do and why they mattered,” said McCray, who currently serves as the Kluge Chair in Technology and ...
Nature

Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

Tampa’s MOSI reinvents itself as the Museum of Science and Innovation

The Museum of Science and Industry is no more. MOSI, however, lives on. The longtime Tampa museum on Fowler Avenue announced ...

The PC was born here: What to know about Boca's new quantum era

From the birth of the PC to the first smartphone, Boca Raton shaped the digital age. Now, D-Wave is moving into IBM's old ...

Neuroscientist reveals first generation in history to be less intelligent than their parents

A former teacher turned neuroscientist breaks down what has happened to the brains of a generation that has caused them to ...
Government Technology

UW-Milwaukee's 'Retrolab' Conveys World Before Cellphones, Social Media

A history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stocked a lab with old computing equipment and devices so ...

These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud

The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and ...