Over the years, the languages used to write computer programmes have become more numerous and evolved to almost beyond recognition. Having begun as purely symbolic instructions that more closely resembled machine code and understandable only to the writer, modern...

Whether you perform most of your digital activities on a smartphone or a PC, the choice of available applications appears endless and is growing by the day. Some look great but don’t work as well as they should. Some look rather bland but get the job done, while...

The history of computers is a much longer one than most people might believe. While the earliest efforts began in the late 19th-century, only during the early 1940s two US professors created the first digital computer. Named ENIAC, it occupied an entire 800 square...

The many lifestyle changes forced upon us over the past two years have no parallel in living memory. While COVID-19 may not have been the most lethal pandemic, its effects on the world economy have been devastating. That said, there have also been some positive...

Even if they had known of it, few people would have recognised the significance of an event that occurred towards the end of October 1969. The occasion marked the first successful attempt to transmit a message wirelessly between two computers, more than 550 kilometres...

A recent survey indicates that there are currently more than 1,8 billion websites and almost 4,8 billion internet users who, on average, spend close to 6 hours per day in front of their screens. Furthermore, that figure of I,8 billion is increasing by almost 550...