Gadgets That Disappeared From Our Lives After Smartphones: Necessity is the mother of invention, as the old saying goes. Well ...

We can probably agree on some of the most important inventions ever: electricity, telephone, the steam engine, penicillin. And we can probably also agree that one new invention pretty much trumps all ...

From the Department of “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up“: a press release from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s Collections announcing the Top Ten Inventions from their collection.

What are the arguments against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to patent inventions? Following initial surveys of the issue, in our last piece we examined the arguments in favor of machine ...

Boston University Distinguished Professor of Engineering Xin Zhang and her students at the Laboratory of Microsystems ...

Early in March of 1991, I was explaining to my United States History class at Fitchburg High School their upcoming assignment, which would be a 10-page paper on a historical topic of their choice.

Valve has been showing off how custom front covers can be used with the Steam Machine, including a nifty E-ink display ...

"I wanted to create a vending machine kiosk that would facilitate the use of reusable ice packs and thermal bags," said an ...

A number of countries have now issued decisions on whether a patent can be granted to Dr. Stephen Thaler for an invention made by a machine named DABUS. In response to a request by the United Kingdom ...

It seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, especially the subset thereof referred to as machine learning. While some of the discussion is cast in terms of politically-stirred ...

There’s a strong case to be made for allowing machines to invent other machines. We recently examined the logic and legality behind the notion of artificial intelligence (AI) gaining the ability to ...