The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.

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Bitcoin Core appoints TheCharlatan as the sixth Trusted Key maintainer after three years. The South African developer gains ...

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The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, manuscripts and music for thousands of years, scientists say.

Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End ...