A York native’s invention created a case of what goes around comes around, with a troublesome local twist. When York-born George Stibitz invented the first digital computer in 1940, he meant his ...

In the seclusion of the kitchen, the driver’s seat, or the workshop, women have consistently transformed their frustration into ingenuity. While these inventions may not have been groundbreaking or ...

On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Island’s Great South Bay with his student ...

They say, 'Necessity is the mother of invention,' and in many ways, that's true. There are many motivations to invent, some to make money and some because of curiousity. But all inventions have only ...

The Trump administration's efforts to defend American intellectual property rights from foreign abusers may prove as ...

It's been 30 years since 1996, and some of the things we left behind deserve a serious second look.

But Kozmo.com, just one of many examples, shows how likely the first mover in a sector is to founder or fail or fall out of favor: Friendster and Myspace were first in social networking, but Facebook ...

Exploring the impact and controversy of billionaires and the rise of trillionaires like Elon Musk.

At the time, their technique was a fascinating but impractical creation. Forty years later, it is poised to become an ...

Longtime animator Bud Luckey only directed one Pixar project. Veterans of the animation studio explain who he was, and his ...

The term misogynist is commonly said to be the “hatred” of women; but that’s only one of its definitions, and an often ...

Bell Labs also developed some of the rocket technology that launched the satellite, a byproduct of an antiballistic missile ...