1976 Apple-1 computer with wooden case set to sell for £1.1M on eBay

An original Apple computer with a wooden case is up for sale for £1.1 million ($1.5 million) on eBay — some 2,250 times more than its original price tag in 1976. The ‘Apple-1’ was the first product to be developed under the Apple name by company co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and launched in … Read more

Apple: Original 45-year-old computer with wooden case set to sell for £1.1 MILLION on eBay

An original Apple computer with a wooden case is up for sale for £1.1 million ($1.5 million) on eBay — some 2,250 times more than its original price tag in 1976. The ‘Apple-1’ was the first product to be developed under the Apple name by company co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and launched in … Read more

Tom Holland found out he was cast as Spider-Man in 2015 through the press: ‘I broke my computer’

Tom Holland revealed on Wednesday that he broke his laptop after discovering, through the press, that he had landed the role of Spider-Man in 2015. ‘I flipped it up in the air. It fell off my bed,’ the 24-year-old actor told fellow MCU Londoner Daniel Kaluuya during a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors. … Read more

Jaja customers hit with £12 penalty charge after computer glitch

Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your … Read more

Britons will spend almost 60 hours of Christmas break staring at their phone or a computer screen 

Britons will spend almost 60 hours of the Christmas break staring at their phone or a computer screen, study shows Study found around 57 hours of Christmas break will be spent staring at a screen  Adult will spend 49 minutes a day on average on their phones during holiday Will spend hour a day looking … Read more

Christopher Walken makes the surprising admission that he has never owned a cell phone or a computer

Christopher Walken has been making the press rounds for his new movie Wild Mountain Thyme, making a rather shocking admission that he has never owned a cell phone or a computer. The 77-year-old actor appeared via Zoom on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the movie, when he admitted someone had to set … Read more

Rare signed 1991 Steve Jobs letter taking a job at a computer company set to fetch more than $25,000

A letter signed by Steve Jobs in which he accepts an ‘insanely great’ job offer is estimated to sell for over $25,000 at auction this month. The letter, signed by the former Apple boss, offers him a position with NeXT Computer Inc. on November 14th, 1991. The two-page typed letter offers him the title of … Read more

Chinese scientists claim to have achieved quantum supremacy with new computer

Chinese scientists claim to have built a quantum computer which is 100trillion times faster than the world’s most advanced supercomputer – Japan’s Fugaku. The prototype of the groundbreaking machine is able to perform a calculation which would take a traditional computer billions of years to figure out.  The breakthrough means the country has achieved quantum … Read more

Computer mouse movements ‘reveal whether you’re a risk-taker’, study says

A person’s secret impulse to take a risk can be spotted simply by the way they move a computer mouse across a screen, a new study shows.   In computerised gambling experiments, US participants had a choice of either clicking on a ‘safe’ option or a ‘risky’ option as they built up monetary rewards.  Researchers say … Read more

Postmasters’ lives ruined by false fraud claims from computer glitch

Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant when she was sentenced to 15 months in jail for stealing from the Post Office branch she ran. Protesting her innocence throughout her nine-day trial at Guildford Crown Court in 2010, the sub-postmistress from Surrey said she couldn’t explain how £74,609 had gone ‘missing’ from her West Byfleet branch. … Read more