Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to interpret, compile, and execute the instructions provided by code. In this video, ...

Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.

It turns out a knitting machine can work a bit like a 3-D printer. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Textiles Lab have created an algorithm that translates 3-D shapes in computer models into ...