Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day, you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony ...

The invention of ENIAC in Philadelphia sparked countless technological innovations.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new computer keyboard that would allow for the additional connection of a wired USB mouse or other USB computer accessory," said an ...

U.S. inventor Douglas Engelbart was one of the visionaries of the computer age. Besides inventing the computer mouse, his insight laid the... Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a wireless, non-invasive brain-computer interface to facilitate direct communication between the human brain and external devices without ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.

Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...