Use a computer enough, and you’ll become familiar with when it’s running smoothly and when it’s experiencing bumpy holdups. Long before your device dies a dramatic death and shares a “blue screen ...

Adam Osborne, the man behind the first portable computer, has died. He sold tens of thousands of the Osborne-1, which at 23 pounds barely qualified as portable, and then jinxed himself by making a ...

Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died in New York. He was 69. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, ...