The Masked Singer paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne on March 4, sending one contestant on a one-way "Crazy Train" ride out of the ...

It was done quietly and without fanfare, but United Airlines’ new rule is worthy of a party with cake, balloons, and pointy hats. At the end of February, the airline was the first to add an important ...

It’s another night scrolling the carousel of social media apps I let keep me up past midnight. Every other post, my phone screen becomes a bright white projecting polka dots and one word in pastel ...

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons ...

Wisconsin residents played a role in the invention’s early development.

For the last few years, I’ve carried around a primitive mobile device called the Light Phone II, otherwise known as a “dumbphone.” It’s a tiny hunk of gray plastic approximately the size of a credit ...

Sometimes commentators will cherry-pick early phone laments to suggest that fears over the newest tech, like smartphones or artificial intelligence, are an irrational panic we’ve seen before. But in ...

On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the way we communicate when the first discernible human voice traveled over wire from one person to another.

A tiny insect caused a surprisingly dangerous situation around my aquarium setup. Watch what happened when a ladybug nearly started a fire and learn why keeping electrical equipment safe around ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and ...

The video, which appeared online March 5, shows Durk speaking with his daughter over the phone as she attempts a trending ...