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One of the most well-known and significant personalities in American history was Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790). He was a polymath who was brilliant in science, literature, and politics, among other things. He was a vital contributor to the creation of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as one of the country’s founding fathers. Franklin was raised in a large, impoverished household and was born in Boston. Despite having no official education, he taught himself to read and write at an early…

Nikola Tesla was an American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best remembered for his contributions to the development of the alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. He was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Croatia, and passed away in New York City on January 7, 1943. Nikola Tesla immigrated to the United States in 1884, where he worked for the inventor and businessman Thomas Edison. Tesla had a photographic memory and was fluent in several languages, including Serbian, Czech,…

With summers now warmer than ever, enjoying the great outdoors inside a stiflingly hot tent is becoming less appealing than a vacation spent relaxing in an air-conditioned hotel room. That could soon change, however, as a University of Connecticut researcher has created a new fabric that could potentially cool the inside of a tent by up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit.The fabrics currently used to make tents are engineered to block out winds and water to help keep theirinhabitants dry and comfortable, but they tend to work…

Data science has smitten everyone with its capabilities. So much so that today, it is practically not possible to think of leading our lives without data science in place. Today, every sector that one can possibly think of relies on data. No wonder why data science is one of the fastest-growing technologies. With an increase in data dependence, quite evidently, the demand for data scientists soars up. Here, we will talk about top 10 data science inventions that left people in awe in 2022. Heart Disease…

James Webb Space telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket were named 2022 TIME Inventions of the Year. <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…

The US federal circuit court has confirmed that AI systems cannot patent inventions because they are not human beings. The ruling is the latest failure in a series of quixotic legal battles by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to copyright and patent the output of various AI software tools he’s created. In 2019, Thaler failed to copyright an image on behalf of an AI system he dubbed Creativity Machine, with that decision upheld on appeal by the US Copyright Office in 2022. In a parallel case, the US Patent Office…

Nature: Experts say that governments should create bespoke IP law and an international treaty to protect AI-generated inventions, rather than rework old patent laws — The patent system assumes that inventors are human. Inventions devised by machines require their own intellectual property law and an international treaty. Nature: Experts say that governments should create bespoke IP law and an international treaty to protect AI-generated inventions, rather than rework old patent laws …