This film publicity image released by RADIUS-TWC shows Adam Brody as Harry Reems, left, and Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace in "Lovelace." (AP Photo/RADIUS-TWC, Dale Robinette) This film publicity ...

Women can not only code, but the first coder was a woman. Born 197 years ago today, Ada Lovelace is considered the first person to write a computer program and also the first to realize that a ...

A century before the dawn of the computer age, Ada Lovelace imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer. It could be programmed to follow instructions, she wrote in 1843. It could not just ...

Pornography, they say, drives technology. It spurred the adoption of the VCR, the DVD revolution and streaming media, all of which, for better or worse, brought adult films into the home and away from ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Someone encountering an “Analytical Engine” ...

The first programmable computer—if it were built—would have been a gigantic, mechanical thing clunking along with gears and levers and punch cards. That was the vision for Analytical Engine devised by ...

Women can not only code, but the first coder was a woman. Born 197 years ago today, Ada Lovelace is considered the first person to write a computer program and also the first to realize that a ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — The lurid celebrity and sordid aftermath of the brief career of the world’s first porn star is vividly, if not explicitly, etched in “Lovelace.” Given all the ways a project ...

The lurid celebrity and sordid aftermath of the brief career of the world’s first porn star is vividly, if not explicitly, etched in “Lovelace.” Given all the ways a project like this could have gone ...