16 stories tagged with #invented, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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A chemist invented a fake Frenchman to justify capital L for liters
Claude Litre was a 1978 April Fools' hoax invented to justify capital L for liters. A journal printed him as real.…
Supreme Court Holds the Line Against Judicially Invented Lawsuits and Legislative History as Law
A case about who can sue to enforce federal law descended into a bitter battle between Justices Barrett and Jackson over legislative history.…
The interface for AI hasn't been invented yet
Telepath founder Stephen Hood on why the desktop metaphor stuck, why chat won't, and what comes next…
CMV: Smartphones should never have been invented (I know there were flip phones in the 2000s with 3G and internet capabilities, but I am talking about smartphones with touchscreens and features like 4G or 5G and social media and even ones that have folding displays that turn into a tablet)
Oh No! I've invented SVG badly!
How Xerox invented the GUI and watched Apple and Microsoft win
There are few stories in computing as brilliant, maddening, and strangely funny as the tale of Xerox and the graphical user interface. It is the kind of corporate fumble that makes…
The Mind of Ada Lovelace: How a Victorian Woman Invented the Future of Coding
Moving past simple arithmetic to discover how a young genius saw that machines could do far...…
What will happen if teleportation is invented for real? Will the car, train, aviation companies be shut down?
"I'm retired. I showed my MS Paint paintings to AI for feedback. It accidentally invented an entire fake art movement. Google believes it's real."
20 companies that invented the products we can't live without
Was the longbow invented in the 12th century the first of its kind?
IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation
Fifty years ago, a brash middle manager had a vision: a chip in a day…
Hollywood Invented the Girlboss
The Criterion Channel’s excellent new “Office Romances” retrospective shows how Hollywood’s classic workplace comedies exposed a deep panic about women who dared to be competent.…
CAFleet – open-source Agent Teams reinvented, both for Claude Code and Codex
🛰️ Agent Teams reinvented for collaborative coding supporting Claude Code and Codex, with full code transparency - himkt/cafleet…
IDEO invented ‘human-centered design.’ Can it survive an AI world where everything looks the same?
After decades championing human-centered design, IDEO is reinventing itself as a teacher of innovation rather than a seller of design.…