For decades, the world credited two men with inventing the computer. But after a bitter battle in federal court, the real ...

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

New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first ...

Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1964 at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which is now called SRI International. His one of the colleague Bill English, who was the chief engineer ...

The personal computers of today are slick and savvy, performing countless operations seemingly at ease. Given the way in which technology has progressed, it seems unfathomable that early computers ...

Smart phones have been regarded as one of the most significant innovations of our time and they have changed the way we communicate, do our jobs, and access information. Before the advent of ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...

Even as electric vehicles battle for a footing in the mainstream automotive market today, you might be surprised to learn that this struggle actually dates back nearly 200 years. That's right — ...

Here’s what we found suggesting that Adam Back invented Bitcoin. By John Carreyrou With Dylan Freedman It has been 17 years since a nine-page white paper appeared in an obscure corner of the internet ...

A quantum computer capable of breaking the encryption that secures the internet now seems to be just around the corner. Stunning revelations from two research teams outline how it could happen, with ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The Inca never built a world of silicon chips or copper-wired circuits, and the high-speed hardware of modern times was something they simply didn't ...