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Today is the 98th anniversary of the birth Alan Turing, one of most brilliant minds of the 20th Century. Born on was born on 23rd June 1912 in London, England, he is known as one of the fathers of modern computing, though his ideas for programmable computers were ahead of their time. He is widely know for the test which
The Japanese space agency JAXA successfully unfurled the solar sail on the IKAROS demonstrator back on 10 June and now they have the photos to prove it. Taken by a tiny camera module launched from IKAROS, the photo was transferred from the camera module to the probe and then on back to earth. For those not up on what's going
On the 16th May 1960, Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab in California fired up the first confirmed demonstration of a laser using a synthetic ruby. A few months later on 12th December and persuing a different line of research, Ali Javan at Bell Labs, showed the first helium-neon gas-discharge laser. One of the key differences between the two versions,
The Sandpit I found this utterly fascinating. It's a five minute study of "a day in the life of New York, in miniature" and it's just that. The director, Sam O'Hare has combined time-lapse photography and a tilt-shift lens (whatever that is!) to produce an effect akin to toy models scurrying around a miniature city. Look out for the helicopters
If you're the kind of person who wants to use really strong passwords but you've a memory like a sieve, then PasswordCard might be for you. It's a credit card-sized set of random characters with symbols along the top and coloured bars which you keep handy in your wallet (or phone). So how does it work? First of all, set
If you are an entrepreneur or entrepreneur-in-waiting, then you should have a look at this for inspiration. HSBC Business has produced a series of four booklets comprising a total of 100 real world mini-case studies on how to do things a little differently for success. Some of the examples are well-known companies such as Lufthansa and Red Bull, others are
If, like me, you have always believed that you never stop learning, and that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is part of the human condition, then I think you will love this. "In Our Time" , one of the BBC's flagship radio programmes, now has its archive online, going back to 1998. "In Our Time" is a weekly radio programme