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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

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

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

Amazing new web technology announced at Google Developer Day in Sydney. What has Google invented now?

Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.

Davey Winder explores the moves that brought artificial intelligence out of the labs and into the black and white world of popular science.

The future of Internet access is now. The idea of connecting cables to a computer to enable a connection will soon seem as archaic as manually cranking the engine of an automobile. Ed Dawson samples a cross-section of bleeding-edge wireless broadband services and cuts through the hype.

The advent of brain scans in the 1970s made it easier to find damage, but today its possible to observe the thought processes of healthy individuals almost as they happen. Two scanning te

Still not sure whether it's worth upgrading to Vista? We put XP and Vista through the ultimate face-off.

1980 Sinclair Producing everything from electric cars to home computers, Clive Sinclair was the 1980s embodiment of English eccentric genius. While Americas kids wiled away t

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

We tour several of the leading tech research labs in the US to discover which 10 research projects could soon change the world

Not Apache, MySQL or Firefox, but lesser-known apps that serve a particular function very well – a Top Ten of open-source applications you’ve never heard of.

We’ve examined the data from more than 8000 readers to reveal exactly what sort of reliability, customer service and satisfaction you can expect in 2007.

The biggest problem with modern robotics is not the mechanisms, its the intelligence behind the mechanisms. Matching the human sense of balance is a major challenge, for example. Enter cy