Information Age

Computer inventions can be patented, court rules

The latest ruling – which follows years of appeals and counter-appeals between Aristrocrat and the Commissioner of Patents ...
Yahoo

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

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

Computer Scientist's Claim He Invented Bitcoin Is Not True: UK Court

An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not "Satoshi Nakamoto", the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London's High Court ruled on Thursday. Craig ...
Singularity Hub

How Was the Wheel Invented? Computer Simulations Reveal Its Unlikely Birth Nearly 6,000 Years Ago

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 ...
SFGate

How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai James, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a copper ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

In which Rock island tavern was computer invented?

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) -- Was the world's first electronic computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club? Kirwan Cox, a documentary ...