In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces facing Germany had a problem. While it was easy to intercept German wireless communications, their content was difficult to decipher as ...

The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins strived to ...

Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine concept. His codebreaking during World War II significantly shortened the war.

The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...

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 ...

BUCHAREST – Someone in Romania thought he’d made a fair amount of money when he sold an old typewriter for €100 ($115) at a flea market. He was wrong. The “typewriter” was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht ...

The home of computer pioneer Alan Turing is up for sale and it could be yours for a cool £1.1m. Copper Folly on Adlington Road, Wilmslow - home of Turing, the brilliant mathematician and Nazi ...