There was a time when computers ran on water. No, really. They did. Check out the video above, a recent demonstration of a machine called the MONIAC, originally built in 1949. The MONIAC---short for ...

There is an argument to be made that whichever hue of political buffoons ends up in Number 10 Downing Street, the White House, the Élysée Palace, or wherever the President, Prime Minister or despot ...

The phrase "early computer" usually evokes a room full of whirring, cabinet-sized machines or punch cards. Nothing wet there. But at least a couple of early innovators built computers that ran on ...