The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

Seven decades ago today, Colossus Mk I attacked its first message written in the complex code used by Adolf Hitler and his generals during the Second World War. Colossus was built to speed up ...

Google's Doodle is celebrating the Antikythera mechanism, which might just be the first computer. But it might not. The mechanism was found in 1902 – exactly 115 years ago – and the discovery changed ...

Look at it go! The BBC sees a demonstration of the DEUCE, claimed to be the world's fastest electronic computer. DEUCE stands for Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine, fact fans. BBC Archive: ...