Hackaday

Encryption In The 1790s

For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines ...

What The Odyssey tells us about Christopher Nolan, cinema’s enigma

What The Odyssey tells us about Christopher Nolan, our most enigmatic filmmaker - COMMENT: Where other filmmakers have ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Secrets, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Cryptography

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.
Hackaday

enigma machine

The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the war. Given the last 80-odd years of ...
The Indian Express

An enigma called Alireza Firouzja, the crown prince of chess in waiting

They call him the prince of chess. A monarch in waiting, who was handpicked as a worthy successor to the chess throne by king Carlsen himself, but one who could only watch as others cut into the line ...
The Independent

Scientists finally decode why most humans are right-handed

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Dorset Echo

WW2 codebreaker Alan Turing was educated in Dorset

A war hero with a tragic tale had humble beginnings as a pupil of a school in north Dorset. Alan Turing is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in computer science, whose ground ...