Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

In 1950, the British computer pioneer Alan Mathison Turing published a paper in the journal Mind outlining a number of ways in which emerging machine intelligences could be assessed, all of them ...

This month is the 75 th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, published in the October 1950 issue of the ...

“The Imitation Game,” set during World War II, has great moments even when not sticking to the facts. The film follows cryptanalyst Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his team of codebreakers as ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It seems that every day brings a new headline about the burgeoning ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

A 1944 Nazi German Enigma coding machine sold this week for £305,000 in a London auction. Bonhams sold the device in their Science, Technology & Natural History sale that closed with live bidding in ...