Necessity, so the saying goes, is the mother of all invention. But as history often shows adversity is often the catalyst for creativity, inspiring inventors to life-saving feats of ingenuity.
Orbital Sciences Corp. sent up its first entry into the space freight business Wednesday, launching a new unmanned cargo carrier to the Intl. Space Station.
Six months after the grassroots Amazon Labor Union scored a historic victory by becoming the first to unionize one of the tech giant's US facilities, it now appears to be grappling with setbacks and delays.
In recent months, bots have been top of mind for many who track the social media industry, thanks to Elon Musk's attempt to use the prevalence of fake and spam accounts to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. But bots aren't just a challenge for Twitter.
After Rebecca Kasten Higgins lost her husband in a car accident a few days before their 20th anniversary in 2018, she kept her relationship status as "married" on Facebook for three years. Then she started dating someone.
A landmark law requiring Apple and other electronics makers to adopt USB-C as a universal charging standard in the European Union has cleared its final procedural hurdle, after EU member states voted to approve the legislation on Monday.
Apple on Monday raised the price of its music and video streaming services, in the latest example of streaming products getting more expensive in recent months.
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking tough new restrictions against Drizly, the alcoholic beverage delivery platform, after what US regulators allege were repeated security failures that compromised the data of 2.5 million people.
YouTube is rolling out what it calls a "small makeover" with a handful of new features and design changes intended to make watching videos on the platform a better experience.
For decades, co-called "copycat" court cases boiled down to 'you stole my idea.' Now, they are testing the rights of fans, artists and rivals to re-interpret others intellectual property on new-media platforms.
Shares of Twitter dropped as much as 8% in pre-market trading Friday as investors braced for some last-minute uncertainty around Elon Musk's $44 billion deal to buy the company.
Apple's industrial design chief who most recently oversaw the design of products including the iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac computers is leaving the company.
In just months, millions of people have flocked to text-to-image AI systems and they are already being used to create experimental films, magazine covers and images to illustrate news stories. An image generated with an AI system called Midjourney recently won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair, and caused an uproar among artists.