The Altair 8800 computer was a small computer introduced in December 1974 by Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is considered by many to have been the first commercially successful personal computer. Edward H....

Altair (α Aql / α Aquilae / Alpha Aquilae / Atair) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the nighttime sky, at visual magnitude...

It was tough enough in antiquity to be a sorceress, let alone the planet's most beautiful woman. In the postmodern world, you have to compete for attention with directors, too.Strauss' "Die Aegyptische Helena" ("The Egyptian Helen") returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday night for...

The focus of this year's E3 Media and Business Summit was the hundreds of video games that will be debuting in the coming months and years.It was a decidedly different theme than last year's event, when questions about the still-unreleased PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii...

President Bush peered under the hood of an all-electric sport utility truck parked at the White House Friday and said his goal of reducing gasoline use by 20 percent over the next decade is realistic."I firmly believe that the goal I laid out _ that...

Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution's National...