Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system ...

It was the shiny, synth surf of the new wave met with protest anthems and charity juggernauts, as Band Aid geared into life ...

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Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that ...

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Legendary software pioneer Bill Atkinson died at the age of 74 on Thursday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., in the San ...

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Father’s Day comes with mixed feelings as I prepare to enter my 60s. Like many of my contemporaries, I spend a lot of my time ...

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As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be ...

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where the original Macintosh computer was unveiled in 1984, commenced on ...

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