Science & Technology
Devices, discoveries, and computing milestones of 2013.
The Science & Technology section tracks the hardware launches, research milestones, and computing trends of 2013 — including the era’s first mainstream experiments in wearable and augmented-reality devices. Browse the articles below, or filter by the section’s topics.
Comet ISON's Perihelion Passage
Comet ISON approached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on November 28, 2013, in what astr...
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Launch
Sony's PlayStation 4 launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, followed one week later by ...
iPhone 5S and 5C Launch
Apple released the iPhone 5S with the groundbreaking 64-bit A7 processor and Touch ID fingerprint...
Google Glass Explorer Program Launch
Google launched its Glass Explorer Program in April 2013, releasing prototype augmented reality g...
Quantum Entanglement Teleportation Breakthrough
In 2013 physicists in Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark teleported quantum states between station...
CERN Confirms Discovery of Higgs Boson
CERN scientists confirmed the discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, validating...