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 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 ...

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

Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated on the second Tuesday of October.

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

Modern technology promises to make life easier, but from bossy cars to fat-shaming watches, these ‘helpful’ inventions are ...

Microsoft Copilot is a great shopping buddy. With its AI "vision," it looked at the websites I had open and analyzed the options. Not only did it save me money on a satin blouse, it picked out the ...

Europe's top Subbuteo table football clubs will be competing in Kent, a year after the county hosted the World Cup tournament ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

The unanswered question hung heavily in the showroom air. “Does it come equipped with The Button?” That answer is the end of this story. Here is the beginni ...

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