One thing that seems clear is that, with technology available that is free and powerful and hardware-agnostic, technology that previously has ruled the ed-tech roost can’t survive for much longer. I’m ...

The iPhone app for Wolfram Alpha (iTunes store link) got approved by Apple surprisingly quickly, I was told in a breathless e-mail from Wolfram PR on Sunday. But the real surprise was the price: The ...

When you access Wolfram Alpha, the input form is displayed. Immediately input a simple linear equation "y = 2x + 1" that somehow came up with and click "=". Then, detailed information of y = 2x + 1 is ...

Apple wasted little time approving Wolfram Alpha’s new iPhone app, which we hinted at last week. Just a few days after they submitted it to the store, Apple sailed it right through the approval ...

Wolfram Alpha, the online computational engine, is now available as an iPhone application that serves as a graphing calculator, calorie counter, international economic index, astronomy guide, currency ...

CNET News editor Rafe Needleman and reporter Stephen Shankland discuss their ups and downs with the search engine that computes. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The Internet’s computational search engine just added a whole bunch of information about Pokémon. Above: Siri will lay out the info for you as if it were a real Pokédex you got from Professor Oak.

Ever heard of Wolfram Alpha? The name conjures visions of solar systems and Battlestar Galactica episodes, but Wolfram Alpha isn't a constellation or a galaxy. It's the name of a new computational ...

What's $50 worth? According to the computational engine Wolfram Alpha, it's currently the same as 4535 Yen, 33.43 Euros or one Wolfram Alpha iPhone app. Now WA, the brainchild of genius Steven Wolfram ...

This story was written by CNET's Stephen Shankland. Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram publicly debuted his company's forthcoming online "computational knowledge engine" Tuesday - but search ...