On December 7, 1877, Thomas Edison walked into the offices of Scientific American in New York City and placed a metal device ...

In Boston in the 1970s, Tom Vernon writes, a few early adopters in radio had envisioned many of the computer applications ...

Intel is a name synonymous with innovation and computing power. Learn who is the owner of Intel, how the company is structured, and why it remains a leader in the semiconductor industry.

Learn how William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947 at Bell Labs and revolutionized ...

As if Section 230 didn’t already have enough to deal with, it is now becoming a battleground in the fight over liability for harms caused ...

For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions. By John Markoff In November 1952, a Harvard sophomore, ...

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In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. The company has changed, but he’s still there. Chris Espinosa holding his ...

Across cultures, early spring is a time to let loose and play pranks—but historians can’t agree on who invented the custom of April 1 fun. Dutch artist Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's "Laughing Fool," ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Inca never built a world of silicon chips or copper-wired circuits, and the high-speed hardware of modern times was something they simply didn’t ...