In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...

Although the calculator of the future may resemble a handheld computer, Hewlett-Packard has decided that now is not the time to merge the two. The company has pulled the plug on Xpander, a graphing ...

In 1966, there were no cheap, reliable keyboards. The keyboards that did exist were too bulky and expensive to work for the calculator. Jim Van Tassel took on the task of designing a small, ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three men credited with inventing the handheld calculator, died on Feb. 27 from complications of heart and kidney failure, The Associated Press reports. He was 86. Between 1965 ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...

Calculators, a no-no in classrooms a few decades ago, are everywhere these days, with supporters saying the small hand-held devices have helped revolutionize math education. Since the mid-1980s, when ...

WASHINGTON –- In 1965, the consumer electronics revolution that would result in PCs, iPods, smart phones and myriad other electronic devices was still years off. And the predecessors of the integrated ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three people at Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld electronic calculator in the 1960s, died at a Dallas hospital on February 27. Merryman was ...