A Husband and Wife Escaped From a Locked Memory-Care Unit. He Solved the Door Code Just by Listening.

According to Tennessee records cited in local reporting, the man told staff that he had previously worked with Morse code in ...

J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79

J. Craig Venter has died at 79. He mapped the first draft of the human genome. The J. Craig Venter Institute announced his ...
The Debrief

A Mysterious 4000-Year-Old “Lost” Writing System Has Finally Been Decoded, in a Modern “Rosetta Stone” Breakthrough

An ancient mystery has been solved by a French archaeologist who successfully cracked the code to an undeciphered Iranian ...
Lancaster Guardian

Former Miss Morecambe and Bletchley Park codebreaker celebrates 100th birthday

A former Miss Morecambe beauty queen who worked as a teleprinter operator at Bletchley Park has marked her 100th birthday ...

Former Bletchley Park codebreaker turns 100

A former beauty queen who worked as a teleprinter operator at Bletchley Park has marked her 100th with a party and a letter ...
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How did the Enigma machine work?

During WWII, the Enigma Machine was used to encrypt messages, making it a fascinating topic of study. This video explores its functionality, the various changes and improvements made to the machine, ...
The New York Times

Where Did All the Affordable Cars Go?

America is a car country. For decades, millions of families relied on inexpensive cars to get from home to work and school. But over time, as carmakers shifted towards luxury vehicles, the budget car ...
Seattle Times

For 140 years, Wilson Machine Works has made bricks, boats, inventions

WHAT INSPIRES A FAMILY for nearly 140 years? At Wilson Machine Works on Elliott Avenue just south of the Magnolia Bridge, the answer lies in sparks, steel and a stubborn love for problem-solving. The ...
Futurism

Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on ...
Quanta Magazine

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...
Supply Chain

Work Design: Closing the Gap Between Humans and Machines

Industrial robotics is scaling at a pace that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. More than 4.7 million industrial robots are now operating globally, with over half a million added each year.
Yahoo! Sports

How much did Italy’s WBC espresso machine sell for?

Someone else will get to celebrate the special moments in their life with a shot of espresso — and for a good cause. “They provide service for children, teens and adults with autism,” Pasquantino said ...