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The Berlin art show bizarrely links the Afrofuturist movement to Elon Musk, and features 21 white artists and one artist of colour
Jerry Lawson led the invention of cartridges, Ed Smith made a hybrid console/PC, and designer Muriel Tramis won France’s highest honour for bringing history into play. How many more names are forgotten?
The collaborators of the Black Lunch Table discuss their efforts at filling holes in the documentation of contemporary art history on Wikipedia.
Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. But she was failed by a system rooted in prejudice.
To celebrate Black History Month, Engadget is running a series of profiles honoring African-American pioneers in the world of science and technology.
In recent months, a number of high profile cases have focused attention on how credit is attributed to the creation of academic research and in particular the way in which the role of women is ofte…
In a new online exhibition, the work of 50 women in comics is being celebrated from the late 19th century to the present day
The history of Herman Miller design has always had a somewhat utopic and storybook allure for design lovers. For starters, the setting is an unusual one: the company known for shepherding modern furniture into American homes and offices is and has always been headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, popu
On erasure of women from the history of the horror genre.
A deletion battle over a black female chemist's biography has put Wikipedia's gender gap in the spotlight
Women have a rich and deep history working in computing in Australia, but their stories have often been overlooked.
Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.
Remembering one of the architects of American copyright law—and one of the legal world's pioneering women
NYU Professor Dr. Charlton D. McIlwain shines a light on unsung tech pioneers in his new book: 'Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.'
The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten
Long before Carmen Sandiego or The Oregon Trail there was The Sumerian Game. Not only was it the first edutainment game, it was the first narrative game.
For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.
Two programmers played a key role in developing chaos theory and the famous butterfly effect, but they've been left out of virtually all accounts of the work.