Edison is one of the most successful inventors in history. But did you know that he got his start thanks to a good deed ...

Mayors George Brown and Paige Gebhardt Cognetti recreated the world’s first successful wireless telegraph conversation over ...

Take a look at your keyboard for a second. Notice how the letters jump around like a secret code — Q, W, E, R, T, Y. It is ...

It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and ...

A Malta-flagged products tanker en route from Sikka, India, to Durban, South Africa, was reportedly boarded by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, maritime security firm Ambrey and the ...

Attackers firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have boarded a tanker carrying gasoline off the coast of Somalia. A series of recent attacks attributed to Somali pirates have put shipping ...

The sixth album by Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream, is the best new album I have heard all year. Magisterial, wild, funny, profound and sad; so awe-inspiring, indeed, that it made me ...

There was $2bn for more missiles and $12bn for naval shipbuilding and submarine maintenance facilities, south of Perth. Yet, as is so often the case with a government that’s better at making ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

Centerstone, located at 2615 Edwards St. in Alton, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 Two men work to install a new sign in front of Centerstone in Alton in early October 2025. ALTON — Centerstone in Alton has ...

In December 2020, attackers slipped malicious updates into SolarWinds' Orion software, compromising thousands of organizations, including U.S. government agencies. The breach, later traced to tampered ...

Nike is celebrating its timeless heritage with a unique twist, unveiling the new Nike Air Force 1 Low “Morse Code.” This special edition of the iconic silhouette is not just a new colorway; it’s a ...