When humans counted on their fingers, everyone had a state-of-the-art (at the time) calculator at all times. But as we got smarter about calculation, we missed that convenience. When slide rules were ...

Gigacalculator compiled a list of important events throughout the history of the modern calculator using historical and news sources. - Mondadori // Getty Images Gigacalculator compiled a list of ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum. Our series on the birth of the transistor — and with it, the ...

Form is temporary, function is permanent. The most important inventions are the ones that relate to the human condition, and they crop up over and over again. Below, Houston shares five key insights ...

I stopped using Google’s calculator app some time ago because although it’s nice and simple, I couldn’t see my previous calculations. As trivial as that may sound, it can actually be quite ...

If you've been a long-time Apple user, you've likely noticed that the Calculator app has been available on Macs, iPhones, and even the Apple Watch for years. Strangely enough, it took the tech giant ...

When it comes to calculator applications, they’re almost all more or less the same. They can add, subtract, and possibly even get fancy and work out some logarithmic equations. The latest version of ...

From those photos from a drunken night out to your browser's search history, our phones are already a treasure trove of potentially embarrassing information. But iPhone users have been mortified to ...

For 30 years, the technology that could help save the world has been in the hands of children. Solar calculators were such a routine part of math class from the mid-1980s onward that they barely ...

Sometimes it becomes essential for users to keep a record of the calculations they performed so that they can refer it and make corrections wherever necessary in case something goes wrong. For ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...