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Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?

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More than ever, technology can feel like it's moving at breakneck speeds, but the fact of the matter is that many of these ...

Here’s what we found suggesting that Adam Back invented Bitcoin. By John Carreyrou With Dylan Freedman It has been 17 years since a nine-page white paper appeared in an obscure corner of the internet ...

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 ...

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 ...

China’s medical regulator has granted a world-first commercial green light to a brain-computer interface, with a system designed to help restore some hand movement to people with spinal cord injuries.

Will we scan 100,000 faces just to catch a single thief? It is the question that surfaces every time retail loss‑prevention teams sit down with AI vendors. After all, using facial recognition has ...

Erwin Perzy I, a surgical instruments mechanic in Vienna, was experimenting with a water-filled glass globe around 1900 to amplify light when added particles drifted down like snow. The "snowfall" ...