I cover billionaires at Forbes. Altogether 8 of the 35 billionaires who are under 30 are U.S. citizens, and an additional 3, including Lopes Lara, now live in the U.S. Another 13 live in Europe and 6 ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

The contributions of many Black women inventors have often been overlooked or underrepresented in historical narratives.

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Ah, the yellow light. You know, that signal that is supposed to let you know to slow down as you approach the intersection, but makes you speed up instead? You probably take it for granted, but ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

AI wasn't created by one person, instead, it evolved over decades. British mathematician Alan Turing shaped the idea of AI by asking "Can machines think?" and proposing the Turing test. In 1956, at ...

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