The greatest tools in history do more than solve common problems. They redefine and reshape humanity. The wheel provided us with motion, the printing press with freedom of thought, and the microchip ...

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Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

In the age of social media, the online landscape is more challenging than ever for civil society. It’s a far cry from what the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, intended to create. He ...

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the ...

In the decades before the country’s best minds began migrating west to California’s Silicon Valley, many of them came east to New Jersey, where they worked in enormous brick-and-glass buildings ...

Italian chemist Francesco Rivella, best known as the inventor of Nutella, died on Valentine’s Day, according to various news outlets. He was 97. Dubbed the “father” of Nutella by the Italian media, ...

Upon hearing the name Hedy Lamarr, whom do you see? A smoldering, bejeweled temptress, perched on velour cushions, in the 1949 Hollywood classic "Samson and Delilah?" Or, a demure and professionally ...

A black and white photograph of Frederick McKinley Jones, taken around 1950 with his invention, a refrigerated truck.

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WINTER PARK, Fla. – In a heartwarming surprise, 12-year-old Arabella Romsa, a young innovator from Winter Park has been announced as the winner of this year’s prestigious MED-EL IDEASforEARS contest.

The inventor of the Xtracycle was there when BICAS started. Ross Evans, 34, grew up in Tucson and went to University High School, where he developed a love for service work. That's how he met Kansas ...