Where’s our frickin’ kitchen robot? If you were raised in the late 20th century on a cultural diet of Jetsons cartoons, you probably feel more than a little bit ripped off in the year 2014: No jet ...

IBM’s party for its glittering new headquarters in New York City last month featured a menu of chocolate burritos with edamame and apricots and cardamom-spiced Brussels sprouts. At the helm was ...

, brainy Katharine Hepburn trounced a version of ENIAC, the world’s first electronic general-purpose computer—she was far better than it at recalling the names of Santa’s reindeer—but since then it ...