Hard as it is to believe, there was once a time when computers didn't have USB ports. Here's what came before it, and how ...

The latest ruling – which follows years of appeals and counter-appeals between Aristrocrat and the Commissioner of Patents (CoP) – found that “computer-implemented invention [CII] is a manner of ...

The humble transistor - smaller than a speck of dust — has been made more than any other invention in history, powering ...

In the candle-lit world of Victorian England, one woman looked beyond steam engines and gears — and saw the future of machines that could think. Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, worked with ...

Hadi Partovi called out a new episode of the newspaper's "The Daily" podcast and ongoing media reports questioning whether ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

Microsoft is bringing new and expanded AI features to Windows 11 — adding "Hey Copilot" voice activation, on-screen ...

Right now, messages you send in messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Threema are encrypted to guarantee that nobody else ...

David Pogue looks at our nation's tradition of pioneering inventors, from Thomas Edison's R&D facility in Menlo Park, N.J., ...

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...

UC Irvine researchers have invented an artificial colon to be used in disease anaysis and drug assessment. They envision taking a patient’s own cells from a tumor biopsy and growing a personalized ...