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  Internet pioneers win $1.5 million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 18, 2013 10:10 am + 20 comments

  Five engineers that were essential to the creation of the internet as we know it have had their Continue reading…

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  Artist crafts intricate drawing machine from cardboard and tape

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 5, 2013 06:12 am + 8 comments

  A Germany-based artist has created an automated drawing machine almost entirely from cardboard. The C Continue reading…

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  Futurist Ray Kurzweil joins Google, will focus on machine learning and language processing

  By Bryan Bishop on December 14, 2012 06:58 pm + 54 comments

  Today futurist Ray Kurzweil announced that he has joined Google. According to a post on Kurzweil's Continue reading…

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  Noam Chomsky weighs in on Ayyadurai's email invention claim

  By Jeff Blagdon on June 13, 2012 06:56 am + 34 comments

  Celebrated linguist and radical activist Noam Chomsky is defending his former student V.A. Shiva Continue reading…

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  Starlite: the miracle material that could be lost forever

  By Jamie Keene on May 17, 2012 08:46 am + 95 comments

  On a 1990 episode of the BBC TV show Tomorrow's World, presenter Peter McCann showed off a new Continue reading…

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  Google Doodle pays homage to Gideon Sundback, zipper pioneer

  By Amar Toor on April 24, 2012 03:10 am + 11 comments

  Google has come out with another one of its doodles today, paying homage to one Gideon Sundback — Continue reading…

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  Ralph Baer, video game pioneer, talks inventing as he turns 90

  By Chris Welch on March 6, 2012 11:10 pm + 9 comments

  Ralph Baer is a name many of this generation's gamers may not be familiar with. Yet if he hadn't Continue reading…

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  Exposing the self-proclaimed 'inventor of email'

  By Sam Byford on March 5, 2012 11:34 pm + 53 comments

  Last month the Washington Post published a profile of Shiva Ayyadurai, describing him as the Continue reading…

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  Steve Jobs' patent legacy honored in real-life and virtual patent exhibits

  By Joseph Parish on November 24, 2011 12:31 pm + 31 comments

  After Steve Jobs passed away, Apple and others celebrated his life through various tributes. Now, Continue reading…