NOT to belittle the success Tesla Motors has had with its Model S luxury electric car—outselling its petrol-powered equivalents since being launched last year—the prospects for battery-powered ...

EVEN at the cheapest petrol station in your correspondent's neighborhood, filling up the family kidmobile with premium (91 octane) fuel now costs over $70. As the meter clocks up dizzying dollar ...

An early calculator designed by Charles Babbage and subsidized by the British government. Employing wheels and rods, which others had experimented with earlier, the project was started in 1821 but ...

Fulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control. Just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the Molekule air purifier. A ...

This is a working Difference Engine No. 2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Charles Babbage designed a Difference Engine, which is one of the earliest computation machines — some ...

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that the date of the public opening of the exhibit is May 10. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--"Excuse me, Richard, we have a very large parcel." With those ...