SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. University of Utah researchers found a rare 1973 UNIX tape in storage. The tape may reveal ...

In the past, "the pace of progress, once measured in generational arcs, now unfolds in mere years." This meant it could take ...

"Now more than ever, we are focusing our technology on the future of Total War," Pitkethly concluded. "So previously we ...

One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the ...

Seeing Things” traces tools that manipulate reality (like Sora or Photoshop) back to technologies popularized in the 1800s.

From 1960s computers to AI, how the stock market's 10% average return was uncovered—and why it still guides investors today.

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but sometimes dumb luck plays an even bigger role. World-changing tech often begins as total accidents, proving that stumbling around in the dark ...

The wheel is one of humanity’s oldest innovations, believed to have first been used around 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. This simple yet revolutionary invention marked the beginning of a new chapter in ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

As we look back on human history, we can analyze certain moments and periods that have shaped how humanity operates today. Various inventions in particular have allowed the human race to move forward ...