Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget just how much society relies on these underappreciated technological wonders. Yet, the history of the LED goes back further than ...

Californians flipping open work PCs were greeted with the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death” on Friday morning as one of the largest cyber outages in history mostly bricked Microsoft systems across the ...

The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one. By Sopan Deb For millennials, blue can be a significant color. It is associated with clues left ...

After a long and storied history, the BSOD is being replaced. WIRED takes a trip down memory lane to wave goodbye to the iconic screen we all love to hate. Along with scrapping the blue (in favor of a ...