Discover how the analytical engine, Babbage's 1830s design, could revolutionize computing if built today. It might seem a folly to want to build a gigantic, relatively puny computer at great expense ...

The analytical engine that started construction in the early 1800s but was never finished may finally be completed someday. One of the world’s first programmable computers was conceived by Charles ...

In 1822 the English Mathematician Charles Babbage had an idea for a machine that would perform mathematical calculations rapidly and infallibly. This was long before the age of electrical circuitry, ...

In an alternate reality Charles Babbage’s difference engine and Ada Lovelace’s computer programming led us into a world filled with brass-keyed laptops with phonograph speaker systems. Several artists ...

Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control. Just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the Molekule air purifier. A ...

In real life, Charles Babbage was a relatively unknown inventor who pioneered early computers. In modern alternate reality fiction, Babbage is a mad genius and steampunk icon. Here are some authors ...

But Steampunk isn't just an old-timey look slapped onto modern technology, says Ann VanderMeer, co-editor with her husband Jeff of "Steampunk," an anthology of Victorian-inspired fiction. "Steampunk ...

In honor of Ada Lovelace's 200th birthday, LEGO has revealed a Lovelace-centric LEGO kit — complete with the Analytical Machine that helped make her named as the mother of computer programming as we ...

*I wonder why I'm hearing about this through a press release in Montenegro. Because I'm in Croatia right now? No! Can't be! It's because almighty steampunk girdles the earth! *Besides, in Montenegro ...

Once a minor sub-genre of science fiction concerned with Victorian-era technology, Steampunk has transcended its origins to become… Once a minor sub-genre of science fiction concerned with ...