New microelectronics device can program and reprogram computer hardware on demand through electrical pulses. What if computers could learn to reconfigure their circuits when presented with new ...

In recent decades, humans have transformed the reality we inhabit into an endlessly repeated image of ourselves — we have even created a technology that seems to reflect not merely our presence in the ...

For many engineers, plasticity is a term referring to a material's deformation under load, but when talking about the brain, plasticity refers to how brain structures change from experience. The ...

Before Hughes, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District for the Western District of Washington. Summary: A patentee’s allegation that computer method claims made data analysis more ...

The sometimes fractured court came together Friday to draw a clear line between patent-eligible tech inventions and abstract ideas. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has taken some ...

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember the legacy of computer scientist Larry Tesler, the man who came up the copy-and-paste function. Tesler died this week at the age of 74. A moment now to ...