Technology and AI

In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human

In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented

In 2002, the 'Ken Burns effect' was created.

In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card

In 1974, the BBC launched the world's first teletext service

In 1996, an electronic voting system in Brazil was used for the first time

Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic

In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code

In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.

Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973

1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot

The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID

The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.

In 1986 a computer virus was developed accidentally by two brothers in Pakistan

The world's first robot dog called Aibo, sold out in just 20 minutes in 1999

It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology

In 1999, Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita created a global phenomena - the first emoji

In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.

How the World Wide Web was created

The American inventor who made the first mobile phone and the first mobile phone call

The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.