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 ...

Artwork created by generative AI could be eligible for copyright protection, following a 7-year legal battle by gaming giant ...

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

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When an experimental project escaped from the studio in 1980, no one could have predicted the consequences for both prog and ...