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• Meet the computer scientist who saved Bletchley Park

  Tucked away in an estate in Buckinghamshire, England, is a 19th-century mansion. You wouldn’t be able to tell from the outside, but this mansion, named Bletchley Park, was the central home to Alan Turing’s team of WWII codebreakers, the team of cryptographers who were able to ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• India isn't keen on Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'

  The authorities in Asia's third-largest economy are no more keen on the social media giant's project than any cryptocurrency ...

  • Neer Varshney

• British Airways fined $229m over last year's data breach

  British Airways is about to be slapped with a massive fine of £183 million by the ICO, for failing to preventing the theft ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Japan is increasingly renting cars for everything except driving

  Many people in Japan who rent cars through vehicle-sharing services don't drive them at all - instead, they use them for ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Waterfall illusion: the science behind why still objects sometime appear to move

  Humans are fascinated by visual illusions, which occur when there is a mismatch between the pattern of light that falls on ...

  • The Conversation

• Here’s how billionaires are planning their immortality

  While we all know that billionaires control a substantial amount of the world’s wealth – in fact, current projections ...

  • ABC Finance

• Neuroscientists scanned radicals' brains to determine what makes them turn violent

  The young man sitting in the waiting room of our neuroimaging facility wearing skinny jeans and trainers looked like a typical Spanish 20-year-old of Moroccan origin. Yassine* was bouncy, chatting up the research assistants, and generally in good spirits. He was like so many other ...

  • The Conversation

• Dublin crime ring recruited 14-year-olds to hide drugs bought with Bitcoin

  Police were tipped off after a large amount of ecstacy was found sitting at a postal hub, reportedly paid for with cryptocurrency ...

  • David Canellis

• Console makers warn Trump that tariffs could cost US gamers up to $840M

  Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft collaborated on an open letter warning the Trump administration console tariffs could make ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• US prisons are taking programming books off the shelves over 'security concerns'

  The Oregon Department of Corrections (DoC) has banned prisoners from reading dozens of books related to technology and programming, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• New syllabuzz: scientists taught bees to understand numbers

  Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study ...

  • The Conversation

• Malaria won't be solved by feeding mosquitos sugar, researchers conclude

  The teasing temptation of a sugary treat can often get the better of us. But don’t worry, we’re not the only ones. The ...

  • The Conversation