From a moth lodged in a computer's relay component in 1947 to costly failures in space and healthcare — a retrospective on ...

Learn what a computer bug is and how to check for them with this KS1 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 1 and 2.

Checking for bugs as we go Debugging is a very important part of writing a good algorithm or computer program and it works best when we check for bugs as we go along, rather than at the end.

Apparently we call them bugs because Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II on September 9, 1945.

By “bug” I mean hardware problems, program errors or even real bugs. A common hardware bug is when electrical contacts in a computer become oxidized or work themselves loose.

Our son, Eric, is a university computer network administrator. Eric said this kind of issue suggests a hardware problem - a "bug" - and advised removing and reinserting all the connectors and ...

Detecting bugs in computer programs is an expensive task, and there is no way of measuring their efficacy without knowing exactly how many go unnoticed. To tackle this problem, researchers have ...

But the gist of the tale, minor inaccuracies and all, is still a fascinating window into the way the long arc of computer history still affects us today in small and large ways, be they the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- It's called Heartbleed, and has even generated its own symbol. But do you know what it is? "I heard that it can affect your accounts, bank accounts, Facebook accounts, personal ...

Internet-security experts have crafted a fix for a new computer bug in security software used by all modern Web browsers. But deploying the fix could break the Internet for thousands of websites.