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Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...the secret decoding centre at Bletchley Park, helping shorten the Second World War by two years with his groundbreaking involvement in building and fully exploiting... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper
Sci-fi tech that came true

Sci-fi tech that came true

...of Alderaan was the stuff of cinema magic in 1977's Star Wars. George Lucas and the Industrial Light & Magic team revisited the trick numerous... Read more

3 September, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Bletchley Park Trust gets £4.6m lottery grant

...has been given £4.6m in lottery funding to secure Second World War-era code-breaking huts. Bletchley Park Trust has gained £4.6m in... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Chertoff advocates cyber Cold War

...should formulate a doctrine to stave off cyberattacks similar to the Cold War-era principle of nuclear deterrence, according to former US Department of Homeland... Read more

14 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks releases confidential Afghan war logs

...on Sunday disclosed more than 75,000 confidential files related to the war in Afghanistan. The group gave the documents in advance to the Guardian... Read more

26 July, 2010 by Declan McCullagh and Steven Musil

Colossus of computing conservation Tony Sale dies

...former MI5 spy catcher headed the project to recreate the Colossus World War II computer, which was used to break the codes used on German... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Tunny code-breaker rebuilt at Bletchley Park

Tunny code-breaker rebuilt at Bletchley Park

...the Tunny machine, which was used to break German codes in World War II, opened at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park on... Read more

26 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Turing papers saved for the UK

...important people in the 20th century." Turing was a mathematician and World War Two code-breaker who is widely credited with breakthroughs that were essential... Read more

25 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Star <endeca_term>Wars</endeca_term>: Lightsaber Duel 1.2

Star Wars: Lightsaber Duel 1.2

...library as a soundtrack for your battles, or for a true Star Wars experience play the classic theme included with the app.The cast of... Read more

4 February, 2011
Ten ultimate geek sins

Ten ultimate geek sins

...5. Confusing Star Wars and Star Trek If someone mentions a Wookie and a Klingon and... Read more

27 December, 2010 by Jason Hiner

Wikileaks releases secret Iraq war files

...Wikileaks has released a massive trove of secret documents from the Iraq war, in the face of warnings from the US military and other officials... Read more

23 October, 2010 by Declan McCullagh
Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

...a million pounds to Bletchley Park, the home of Britain's World War II code-breaking operation, as part of efforts to unlock a £4... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MoD recruits hundreds of cyber experts

...of Defence said in a statement. The government believes that laws surrounding war are applicable to cyberattacks. An MoD source told ZDNet UK on Wednesday... Read more

2 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

China details cyber-defence team

...saying that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) set up the cyber-war unit, or "cyber blue team", to support its military training and upgrade... Read more

31 May, 2011 by Eileen Yu
Tesla: The Lost Wizard 1.0

Tesla: The Lost Wizard 1.0

...x-rays, neon, robotics, remote control and cellular technology, and even Star Wars tactical warfare - all over 100 years ago.Yet today, whos ever heard... Read more

5 March, 2011

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

9 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

14 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

14 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

15 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

17 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

18 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

19 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

20 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

21 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

22 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

22 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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