ATLANTA — Engineer and entrepreneur Dr. Lonnie Johnson created the billion-dollar toy that became a staple of childhood summers—but that success was only the beginning. From growing up in the ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities near Boston say they have no suspect in custody in the death of an MIT professor shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died at a local hospital on Tuesday ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

What if the database you rely on could handle writes four times faster without sacrificing simplicity or reliability? For years, SQLite’s single-writer limitation has been both its strength and ...

Nov 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented. USPTO Director ...

But can technology describe something so personal? How are you feeling? I’m genuinely interested in the well-being of all my treasured Checkup readers, of course. But this week I’ve also been ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first school to reject an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration's education agenda. MIT disagreed ...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. SQLite is an incredibly lightweight and remarkably popular SQL-compliant database. In fact, it’s ...