The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the ...

Yuval Noah Harari says AI's deepest social and political consequences will unfold over centuries, not years, and says ...

Archaeologists uncovered 70,000-year-old handle implements in China, reshaping views of early human technology and innovation in East Asia.

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

The hype about new technologies often follows a predictable pattern. We’re told a new technology is about to change the world, and then it’s often labeled a failure when it doesn’t make an immediate ...

MOST of us have been brought up on a myth about the machine, and it is one that is not quickly seen through, because it has just enough glittering flakes of truth in it to take our attention off the ...