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Quiz Of The Week: Take Our Turing Test

Alan Turing, founder of computer science and wartime code-breaker, was born 100 years ago. How much do you know about…

12 years ago

IT Life: Four Decades Of Computing

We chat to IT veteran Ian Fergus about Bill Gates, Amazon, the Internet of the future, and free burgers

13 years ago

Celebrating SUSE’s 20 Years Of Linux Love

SUSE's anniversary will be marked by a series of global events commemorating key technology, community and corporate milestones, says Darryl…

13 years ago

A Hundred Years Of Achievement At IBM

During a rare public appearance in Silicon Valley, IBM's chief executive Sam Palmisano reflects on IBM's first century and what…

13 years ago

IBM: 100 Years of Innovation

From mainframes to PCs, from software to operating systems, from open source to services - IBM has done it all

13 years ago

From Telautograph To iPad: 123 Years Of Tablet PCs

From the 'telautograph' to the Apple iPad, it’s been a long and winding road for the technology behind tablet PCs

14 years ago

Bletchley Park To Host Pioneering EDSAC Computer

The EDSAC computer of Sir Maurice Wilkes will be rebuilt by the Computer Conservation Society at Bletchley Park

14 years ago

Browser Bug Shows ‘Sniffers’ Where You’ve Been

Popular sites are actively exploiting a bug that lets the site read your browser History list

14 years ago

Windows Celebrates 25 Years As A New Era Dawns

Windows is still going strong after 25 years but in a world obsessed with software services will it survive another…

14 years ago

Bletchley Park To Digitise A Million War Records

The WWII codebreaking centre wants to preserve around a million documents in digital form, with some available online

14 years ago

Bletchley Park Gets £250,000 Government Funding

Second world war codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given a £250,000 government grant to pay for repairs to the…

15 years ago