In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...

They can do everything from plot complex equations to even play games like Doom (if you have enough rotting potatoes) but the handheld calculator started out as a very simple device capable of ...

Although the calculator of the future may resemble a handheld computer, Hewlett-Packard has decided that now is not the time to merge the two. The company has pulled the plug on Xpander, a graphing ...

Andrew Menadue] wrote in to let us know about the TULIP-DevBoard and TULIP-Module being developed on GitHub. TULIP is short ...

WASHINGTON –- In 1965, the consumer electronics revolution that would result in PCs, iPods, smart phones and myriad other electronic devices was still years off. And the predecessors of the integrated ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If you’ve ever used an electric hand-held ...

Don't you hate it when things get dumbed down? There was a time when you needed two years of engineering classes and a month of free time to make a web page, but now any troglodyte with a library card ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three people at Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld electronic calculator in the 1960s, died at a Dallas hospital on February 27. Merryman was ...