Every year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun. In the past, we’ve featured everything from the real-life hoverboard to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the arrival of each new year, we are compelled to reflect in dreadful wonder on the distance we have journeyed through time.

At the start of this year, the internet seemed to collectively land on nostalgia for the pop culture of exactly 10 years ago. On Instagram, users mined their phones' camera rolls for pictures from ...