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Inventions That Have Been Lost to Time Throughout history, humanity has created countless inventions that have shaped the ...

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The promise of exponential improvement has been a real letdown so far. Many minds in the past predicted that by 2022, robots would look human, cars would fly, and VR would outmatch waking life.

Autonomous crop-managing inventions pushed by agricultural tech companies could spell doom for laborers in Northern California’s wine country. The machines were part of an event at the UC ANR Innovate ...

The University of California secured more U.S. utility patents than any other university in the world last year, according to rankings released today by the National Academy of Inventors. The No. 1 ...