Abstract: This article explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs for AT&T’s 1939 New York World’s Fair exhibit. The article situates the ...

Mumbai: At the heart of the controversy over the Mithi river desilting project in Mumbai, being carried out by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), is an alleged Rs 65 crore scam. Actor Dino ...

The Mumbai police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) is questioning Bollywood actor Dino Morea and his brother Santino Morea in the multi-crore Mithi River desilting scam. The actor and his brother, who ...

The Mumbai police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Wednesday arrested two alleged middlemen involved in the multi-crore Mithi River desilting scam. On Tuesday, the agency booked 13 people, including three ...

Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation. To the best of my knowledge, I am not a robot. And yet, like other humans who spend too much time on the ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

This curious colloquy took place last week in Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device ...

QUESTION Why was German-born Karl Marx buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery? Karl Marx was born in Trier, which was then part of the Kingdom of Prussia in the German Confederation. He spent his early ...