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Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.

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Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.

Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as the ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’, agrees with ...

In a new twist, this year, there'll be two Times Square ball drops as part of the celebrations for America's 250th birthday.