Mike Berners-Lee was born in London in 1964 to Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee, two computer scientists. The pair met working on the Manchester Mark One computer, one of the earliest ...

Because without Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web (WWW), who celebrates his 70th birthday today, none of this would exist. Or at least not as we know it.

Today, we consider the long arc of Elon Musk in the context of other historical figures who, like him, were given the revered title of “genius.” Not that long ago, Musk was considered a visionary by ...

U.S. Vice President Al Gore made a statement during a campaign interview that humorously suggested he created the internet. However, his intention was to convey that he played a significant role in ...

What does it mean to be a genius? Are they cleaver, entrepreneurial, or inventive? The answer, as Helen Lewis's new book ...

The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country. Later, it evolved into the ...

Most people believe geniuses exist, but we prefer to keep the concept at arm’s length. Calling someone in our social circle a genius – especially if they claim to be one – feels laughably excessive.

Amara’s Law works because researchers and practitioners, some driven by greed, others by fortune and others still by ...

The success of AI governance is intertwined with strong data governance. By reliably automating routine tasks and freeing ...

But through the recent tangled twists and complicated turns of this tale, one character has remained set on a plan for remaking TikTok in a new, more user-friendly image: entrepreneur Frank McCourt.

Learn how Apple alumni like Jobs, Fadell and Ive founded NeXT, Pixar, Nest and OpenAI and reshaped the tech world.

Big tech and governments have hijacked the internet. Here’s how we can take it back and build a more democratic digital ...