Listening to the music of Turing's computer
This photo shows Turing (right) and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer in 1951 The earliest known recording of music produced by a computer - a machine operated by Alan Turing, no less - has finally been made to sound exactly as it did 65 years ago. It's hardly chart-topping material. The performance is halting and the tone reedy. It starts with a few bars of the national anthem, t
The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
The video game of Steven Spielberg's ET is considered to be one of the worst of all time and has even been blamed for triggering the collapse of Atari. Howard Scott Warshaw, the gifted programmer who made it, explains how it was rushed out in a matter of weeks - and how he feels about those events in California now. Spielberg was unimpressed. "Couldn't you do something more like Pac-Man?" he asked
Young, geeky and black in Memphis
Facebook has more than one billion users and hires more than 1,000 people each year in the US. But in 2013, just one of these new employees was a black woman. Fewer than 2% of employees at Google, Twitter and Facebook are black. The tech industry is trying to tackle this diversity problem - but efforts are also being made at the grass-roots level. If you've ever read a profile of a successful US t
Will Big Data lead to Big Brother?
Many countries are in the throes of a debate about the amount of surveillance a government should be allowed to carry out on its own people. But in other countries, where there are few, if any, checks on the state's powers, a potential dictatorship of data is already on the horizon. The grey, drab former headquarters of the Stasi - East Germany's Security Service - is famous for its miles of paper
Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
Hamburger icons (clockwise from top left): Spotify, BBC News, Amex, BBC Sport, T-Mobile, Now TV "The first big app that used a hamburger button was Path, I believe," says Alex Tyagulsky, an app designer. "Then it was popularised by Facebook, and the hamburger button started to appear from app to app and many apps started to use them." The button has its benefits, he says. "The biggest one is you c
Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web
France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s. But then came the worldwide web. Minitel has been slowly dying and the plug will be pulled on Saturday. Many years ago, long before the birth of the web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe. What the T
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