The rush to create television was started by a rumor. In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell, the famed inventor of the telephone, sealed documents related to his latest invention and gave them to the Continue reading…
Artist Tom Sachs' latest installation could be seen as a "what might have been" if the golden age of space exploration had been allowed to continue unabated. In Space Program: Mars, he has taken on Continue reading…
"Do you know what this is? It is a man, talking to a machine. And this is a machine... talking to a machine." Phones and satellites may not very inspiring to hordes of hyper-connected people born in Continue reading…
Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science (NKS), published 10 years ago this week, was one of the first books to suggest that the future of scientific research could lie in so-called "simple programs." Continue reading…
How do you fix a problem like Sony's chronically ailing TV business? New company CEO Kaz Hirai reckons the answer lies in streamlining the number of products offered, by a full 40 percent during the Continue reading…
From jetpacks to flying cars, our cultural psyche is filled with dreams of a technological future that never quite became reality. Never was this more true with the vision of Michigan's Bohn Aluminum Continue reading…
The late Arthur C. Clarke may have been most renowned for exploring the dangers of technology in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but just a few years later he was upbeat about the prospect of a computer world. Continue reading…
Never a man short on bold predictions, Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang has used an email to staff this week to express his company's intention to bring the newly unveiled Kepler desktop and mobile GPU to Continue reading…
Nokia hasn't made any attempts to disguise the fact that it's working on a tablet device, but now we've had the most direct — and senior — confirmation of that work. Marko Ahtisaari, head of Continue reading…
The quad-core graphics processor in the new iPad's A5X system-on-chip may not quite be able to match a PlayStation 3, but some games industry bigwigs believe it's only a matter of time before Apple's Continue reading…
