The father of modern computing is to be granted a posthumous pardon, thanks to a backbench bill tabled for the end of October. A legend of British technology and engineering who played a key part in ...

This is the Enigma machine that enabled secret Nazi communications. Efforts to break that encoding system ultimately helped make D-Day possible. It was night when three British sailors and a ...

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Explore how British codebreakers at Bletchley Park tackled the almost impossible task of cracking the Nazi U-boat Enigma codes.

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham but lived High Barnet in north London, worked as ...

A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

When making simple decisions, neurons in the brain apply the same statistical trick used by Alan Turing to help break Germany's Enigma code during World War II, according to a new study in animals by ...