Technology

In 1988, three Canadian Captioning Development Agency employees watch television monitors in a studio where closed captioning is done.

How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV

Whenever people watch videos with captions, "they have the deaf community t...

Whenever people watch videos with captions, "they have the deaf community to thank"

Frank J. Sprague with the double elevator shaft, which permits running of two elevators. He installed the first battery of electric elevators in the Postal Telegraph Building in 1892.

How Electric Elevators Transformed the Modern City

Land in a city is worth so much because of what can be built on it, or rath...

Land in a city is worth so much because of what can be built on it, or rather, what can be built above it. Without electric elevators, all that vertical space would be worth far less

The power grid is lit in the final days of Y2K testing at the Niagara Mohawk Power Company control facility in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1999. The company planned for more than 1000 staff to be on duty system-wide on New Year's Eve to be ready for any problems.

20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously

Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the wor...

Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly

William Kendall Crossfield; Samuel Holmes Doten; Almeron C. Inman

How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers

And in 2020 the site is planning to add a new feature

Male hands using phone with two PCs working in background

Epilepsy Foundation Presses Charges After Hackers Sent Seizure-Inducing Images to Its Twitter Followers

The attacks targeted its Twitter feed during National Epilepsy Awareness Mo...

The attacks targeted its Twitter feed during National Epilepsy Awareness Month

Close up teenage girl friends using cell phones

It’s Not Necessarily Bad if Your Kid Spends Lots of Time Online. But Watch for These Warning Signs

Is “time” really the problem with “screen time”? Researchers have described...

Is “time” really the problem with “screen time”? Researchers have described the negative effects of large amounts of time online and the beneficial effect of moderation. For instance, a 2019 study of more than 6,500...

12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s

Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in...

Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). Virtual reality that speeds healing in rehab. Artificial intelligence that’s better than medical experts at spotting lung...