One day while sitting in class in a Cornell University schoolroom, [Will] and [Michael] thought how cool it would be to send text messages to each other via their Texas Instruments calculators.

Anyone who's been through a high-school algebra class surely remembers using a TI graphing calculator. But who had a calculator like this one? Apple started the trend with the rose gold iPhone, and ...

Ever imagined a graphing calculator like the TI-84 being able to support Python? Well, that just happened. Graphing calculators have long been a fun way for people to get started with programming.

Color screens are an advancement that most graphing calculators have, inexplicably, forgone for ages. But finally, Texas Instruments is moving one of its old battleaxes to Technicolor: the company is ...

Back to school is officially here! If you’ve found yourself needing a brand new graphing calculator to keep up in math classes, then you’re in luck. Right now, you can save big on Texas Instruments ...

In the beginning, Texas Instruments found a solid formula to produce a graphing calculator. The TI-81, the first of Texas Instrument's graphing calculators, was released in 1990, and had a 2MHz ...

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(CNNMoney) A glimmer of hope has arrived for parents tired of having to buy their high school students an overpriced calculator. Smarter Balanced, which administers school proficiency tests in 15 ...

Math students have a love-hate relationship with the funky, expensive TI-84 graphing calculators, but thanks to a new deal, they'll soon get a free option. Starting this spring, pupils in 14 US states ...

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On Saturday, a YouTube creator called ChromaLock published a video detailing how he modified a Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator to connect to the internet and access OpenAI's ChatGPT, ...