In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...

Bonhams’ annual History of Science & Technology auction never fails to delight, and the next sale, scheduled for November 5, has one of the most exciting technology offerings we’ve ever seen – the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...

Time was, back in the early 1970s, calculator chips were the ultimate proof of semiconductor manufacturing prowess. Many 4-banger (add, subtract, multiply, divide), battery-powered, handheld ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three people at Texas Instruments credited with inventing the world’s first handheld electronic calculator in the 1960s, died at a Dallas hospital on February 27. Merryman was ...

If you’ve ever used an electric hand-held calculator in your life, you can thank Jerry Merryman for helping make your math life easier. Merryman – who along with two other men invented the little ...