Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

If this is true, the invention of a tool to remove the cork can’t be too far behind in importance. The story of the corkscrew ...

Everyday vintage tools once seen as ordinary now fetch strong prices from collectors. Some pieces hiding in garages are surprisingly valuable.

Many tools, from ones for carpentry to household chores, have fallen out of favor to more modern alternatives. Or, they're ...

Mass-produced tools have flooded the market, but there are still a handful of American-made brands making tools built for tough jobs. If you want tools that won’t fall apart after a year or two, ...

Researchers have taken a massive step toward solving a decades-long paleontological mystery—did Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human cousin, make tools? The discovery of the first hand and foot bones ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking. The fossilized hand of a male ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...

The dinner fork is one of the most common fixtures at tables worldwide—so ordinary, so unthreatening, that few give it a second thought. But for centuries, the fork was condemned as a symbol of ...

When we spoke to experts about prepping an emergency go bag, they recommended grabbing a pair of adjustable headlamps. This ...

Not all of James Bond's gadgets were fictional. In the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond uses a strange-looking metal square to photograph supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's secret ...