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Enigma

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37 days ago

PC; Inkle
The UK game developer’s latest is a database mystery constructed from an archive of fictional books. Their combined contents threaten to crack the code of reality

Bletchley Park: famed home o…

71 days ago

Codebreaker Ruth Bourne, from HIgh Barnet, north London, who worked alongside Alan Turing to crack the German's Enigma code, has died aged 98.

74 days ago

‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered lib…

4 months ago

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of compu…

The 'untouched' Lorenz SZ42 machine was introduced by the Germans in 1942 after the Bletchley Park codebreakers led by Alan Turing cracked the Enigma.

9 months ago

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientists

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a …

12 months ago

Why Conclave should win the best picture Oscar ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Sturdy, classic storytelling and a peerless cast led by Ralph Fiennes’s anxious cardinal make this drama of Vatican intrigue a solid bet

Could it? Would it? Until it picked up best film at the Bafta a…

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