Computers are programmable machines that process data into useful information, powering everything from phones to satellites. This article explains how computers work, their major components, and the trends shaping their future.

If you had to draw the web with three crayons, you’d probably pick black, white, and blue. The “blue link” is so baked into our mental model of the internet that it feels like a standard—yet no standard ever required it. Blue links are a cultural convention born from early browser defaults, cemented by momentum, […]