In fifth grade, my class was assigned to write a speech about what we thought was the greatest invention. I chose the ...

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The telephone was invented before women were able to vote in the United States. The hit musical “West Side Story” has been on and off Broadway longer than women have received equal pay to men. The ...

Commentary: My level of telephone mayhem never reached heights of cruelty, but the endless hours of making or receiving prank calls in those pre-internet days became my coming-of-age story.

Do you remember what it was like to be bored -- like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn't grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of "Minecraft" to keep me busy; instead, I spent a ...

The name Alexander Graham Bell today may bring some meaning to you. Then again, maybe not. To refresh your memory, Mr. Bell is credited with the invention of the telephone, nearly 150 years ago, March ...

When people think of technology companies, they usually picture startups, apps, and Silicon Valley. But some of the world’s most influential tech firms were founded long before electricity was ...

Gladys West, the mathematician and technologist whose work was key to the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS), has died at the age of 95. She passed away on Saturday, January 17. West was ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

The other day I opened the comments section beneath an article in The Wall Street Journal. I usually don’t open comments sections except by accident, but I was looking at a fluffy article--the top 10 ...

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - Hundreds of Minot area elementary students turned big ideas into real-world inventions on Tuesday. Marketplace for Kids Education Day challenged them to think like engineers and ...