WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two Purdue University industrial designers won a grand prize at an international competition co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. for a new personal computer design that may change ...

There's always been something rather cold about computer design. From the boxy, beige machines that characterized the early PC era to the sleek but antiseptic scheme of modern Apple products, few ...

The centrally positioned touchpad developed by Contour Design introduces a new approach to desktop navigation designed t ...

The trend for computing, and for technology in general, really consists of just one word: Smaller. Previously, technology that could fit on your desk was the rage. Then it became tech that fit in your ...

Fifth-year applied physics Ph.D. candidate Ben Bartlett, postdoctoral scholar Avik Dutt and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan proposed a new computer hardware design in November that could, ...

The sheer scale of the challenge is like nothing we've faced before. But it's not as if the high-tech industry is looking up at a rock wall like El Capitan or the famed North Face of Mount Everest.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

For the second time in a year, commercial software provider AnalySwift LLC has received a contract from NASA to develop a design tool for tailorable composites and hybrid system materials. The ...