The book Der Judenstaat was published in Vienna by Theodor Herzl, in which he envisaged a Jewish state combining humanitarian ...

David Carroll is a Chattanooga news anchor. His new book “I Won’t Be Your Escape Goat” is available from his website, Chattanooga RadioTV.com. You may contact him at 900 Whitehall Road, Chattanooga, ...

To his amazement, the machine played his words back. This was the very start of recorded sound in 1878. A patent was issued on the phonograph on February 19th, 1878; the invention was highly original.

Turing's 1950 paper didn't just pose the profound question, "Can machines think?". It ignited a quest to build AI technology ...

When it opened in 1962, the bar was a hangout for writers such as Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It had lost some of its luster but is now being revived by ...

Moira Weigel began researching the history of dating in the early 2010s during a pivotal cultural moment in the U.S. The ...

In 1630 John Winthrop, the first governor, settled in Charlestown with a group of English colonists, some of whom eventually relocated across the Charles River to what became Boston. In Charlestown, ...

Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage.

IEEE recognized the achievements of Steve Mann with the Masuru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award at the 2025 IEEE ICCE in Las ...

A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization ...

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

L.A.’s massive fires after a year’s drought, not to mention extreme cold weather that hit Texas and Florida of all places.