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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge against the USPTO by a computer scientist. The latter claims that their patent should attribute their AI system as the inventor.

The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours. Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins an elite group who have received the honour from the...

Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday at age 81 after a brief battle with Cancer. His invention, the integrated circuit, was first demonstrated on Sept. 12, 1958. The invention made...

Susumu Tachis invention the "invisibility" cloak made a lot of headlines when it was first revealed last year. Now the inventor has a new project using this technology. He now wants to develop...

The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest...

David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users for decades. The result was one of the most well-known key combinations around: CtrlAltDelete. It forces obstinate computers...

Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns. Waiting in the wings is a better security standard for the Internet's Domain Name System. It's...

A leading Russian scientist who helped invent the laser has died, aged 85. The death of Alexander Prokhorov is being described as the end of an era by colleagues and politicians, including President...