A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

1918 Enigma The German Enigma is surely the best-known mechanical cipher machine. Invented in 1918, it was developed as a commercial and military encipherment system. Enigma

Security firm Sophos seems to be preparing to launch a version of its software security suite for users who prefer to speak Klingon..

They say that behind every great man there’s a great woman, although these days it could just as well be the other way around..

The People's Republic of China claims to have invented the world's first completely unhackable operating system.

The most successful franchise in gaming history has finally re-invented itself after stacks of great and not so great expansion packs that spawned a fanatically loyal gaming community.

Another facet of life is undergoing a similar change - dating. People have been meeting and falling in love via the internet since before the web was invented.

1960 Hypertext Conventional wisdom has it that the Internet started off as an American defence and educational network, then Tim Berners-Lee came along and invented the World

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you've witnessed the wholesale hysteria being launched over the recent Swine Flu outbreak..

The first PC that I ever bought, back in 1980, had a handmade case with polished wood panels. Just like the earliest cars, my Nascom Two had no tradition of its own to belong to and so ended up lookin

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

With a diameter of just one millimeter, a tiny robot has been unveiled that will crawl through the body to diagnose artery blockage

Creative has raised the stakes again with the Audigy, this time from 16- to 24-bit sampling.

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