From floppy-era disasters to laptop lids and MagSafe snaps, an unexpected journey through magnets in computing.

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Over the many years, we have heard stories of how dangerous Magnets are to electronics; therefore, one must always be careful of the magnets kept around the devices. Still, despite that, we have to ...

I've always thought it was best to keep magnets away from things like hard drives and floppy disks...but while thinking up better ways to mount the dryer-sheets-turned-fan-filters in front of the ...

Researchers have begun to use magnets to entangle qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers. This simple technique could unlock complex capabilities. When you push a button to open a garage ...

So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that. The technique may ...