Explore the history of modern home essentials, from ovens and microwaves to TVs and air conditioning, and see how they ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

This is the story of the first computer ever built in the 1800s. From Charles Babbage’s mechanical machine to modern AI ,this invention changed everything. 8 people, including 4 children, injured in ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca quipu was a complex ...

A handful of researchers spread across American universities built the backbone of the internet long before most people even knew what a computer network was. They created packet switching, ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Targeting and treating diseases first requires being able to find specific cells—which is challenging because they travel within the body and can “hide.” Now, a new round of funding will support ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Computers are far more than ultra-fast number-crunchers. Crucially, if given a new set of instructions, a computer’s processor and memory can – in principle, at least – do anything from ...