Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

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(CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization's most historic event was within ...

Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...

[..] but I'm pretty sure there are unresolved jumps when it loads, which get changed to sane values by some of the earliest code that runs after launch. [..] Click to expand... Almost all code does ...

Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...

Cool stuff: A British startup has developed a watch geared at NASA super geeks (you know who you are). The timepiece takes the concept of the calculator watch, which was highly popular in the 1980s, ...

The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I used ...