It played a pivotal role in cracking Nazi codes during the Second World War. But yesterday the Germans finally got the better of Britain's Colossus codebreaking computer. The rebuilt machine had been ...

British intelligence has released new photos showing the World War II era "Colossus" computer. It marked the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking computer's invention. The device's existence was ...

A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of ...

"It was unfair because I was using a modern PC, while Colossus was created more than 60 years ago," he said. "It really is astonishing and humbling that the world's first programmable, digital ...

In an ironic twist, a British team operating a World War II code-breaking computer has been beaten in a cipher-breaking contest by a German. In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the U.K.'s ...

The fate of the world may not hang in the balance this time, but a team of engineers have resurrected Bletchley Park's famous Colossus computer, the World War II code breaking machine widely ...

An amateur cryptographer and ham radio operator in Germany thrashed the reconstructed Colossus system in a code-cracking challenge that replicated the pioneering digital computer’s work in helping the ...

Colossus, the code-breaking computer used to decipher German messages during World War Two, has been put back together. Over six decades after the 10 truck-sized devices were dismantled, one has been ...

It’s pretty common knowledge now that Bluepoint rebuilt Shadow of the Colossus from the ground up for the PS4 release, but many wondered whether that meant they redid the code for the game or not. It ...

An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking ...

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