As we glide our fingers over the screens of our smartphones and tablets, or chatter to our computer instead of typing at it, it is easy to forget how far input devices have evolved since the first ...

A HEC 1 computer was recently unearthed in the stores of the Birmingham Museum Trust After World War II, Britain was a hotbed of pioneering computer research. Work done on automatic ways to crack ...

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