Richard Upchurch heard his dad say this constantly growing up. So when his beloved sixties-era Sony transistor radio broke, a young Upchurch didn’t purchase a new one; instead, he cracked it ...

Japan’s own history with chipmaking goes back to Sony’s seminal transistor radios of the 1950s and continued on with calculators and a host of other electronic devices in subsequent decades.

Advances in artificial intelligence have breathed new life into robotics, a field in which Asia has long been ahead. China, ...

A lot of the progress will come from China, which accounts for 78% of all robotics patents over the last two decades ...

Citigroup projects that there would be 1.3 billion AI robots globally by 2035 and 4 billion by 2050, doing everything from household chores to delivering parcels. A lot of the progress would come from ...

We are just a week away from Christmas, devouring our chocolate advent calendars, listening to festive tunes, and panicking ...

Just as digital camera makers would with megapixels four or five decades later, makers of transistor radios would cram as many transistors as they could into their products in a game of one-upmanship.

Back in the day, you knew a song was a hit when you heard it everywhere. Well, at what passed for everywhere back in the day: blasting from open windows, backyards, cars, stores, boomboxes, maybe ...

The last time Sony was worth this much on the stock market, Bill Clinton was president and the PlayStation 2 was about to debut on American store shelves. It’s been a rough past two and a half ...

Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before their mass popularity in the 1960's, but then they became a teenage 'must-have'.