The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...

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The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...