Turing, born in 1912, was a brilliant mathematician who studied at Cambridge University and was recognised as being gifted from a young age. Although he was born and originally attended schools in ...

Silicon Valley computer history, heritage neighborhoods, museums, parks, restaurants — and a mysterious 160-room mansion ...

TR-49 is a puzzle game like no other. Putting you in front of a World War II-era computer that has been used to compile a database of lost and forgotten books, it’s your job to make sense of the ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

For the first half of the 20th century, one of the most important firearms in the U.S. military arsenal was the water-cooled ...

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

If machines ever fight a war against humans, it’ll probably be fought with modern weapons of war — bullets, bombs, and perhaps plasma weapons a la “The Terminator” — in a conflict, the robots will ...

In hundreds of official complaints, inadvertently posted online by the Russian government, soldiers and their loved ones describe a lawless and violent military apparatus that abuses its own troops to ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...