On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

A self-sensing and heating transistor thermostat for a 16-bit DAC voltage reference to stabilize its temperature.

Now seen as family fun, pinball was widely banned from the 1930s to 1970s as “pernicious and dangerous to the public welfare.

I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear—from the 386SX to 64-core processors—in my long tenure as an editor, a writer, and an ...