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Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from th...

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The Raspberry Pi is a compact, single-board computer that's affordable and very popular. Here's how it has evolved over the years, from prototype to now.

This blog is a continuation of our earlier collaboration (which can be found here and here). These posts focused on our first efforts to set up a workflow to image 5.25-inch floppy disks using a…

The Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer was introduced on January 24, 1984

On 24 January 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K was unveiled to the world – and it changed personal computing forever.

About a year ago, I left a comment on a Nostalgia Nerd video about Viruses. It’s a good video, worth a watch, like most of their content. Here’s my silly comment. At 1.7K ��, it’s my most upvoted comment on YouTube, ever. I do enjoy free Internet points. Some of the replies to me on YouTube were quite ��fun��. “Any chance you made a back up? I’d love to look at the source code”

A Suffolk company has played a key part in helping to create a new film about the legendary computer video puzzle Tetris.

Last month, we covered the invention and history of integrated circuits (ICs) and the manufacturing process. Now we pick up where we left off, discussing how transistor counts keep increasing and feature sizes get smaller, culminating in the cutting-edge EUV technology. by Dr David Maddison

We've put together a list of curious places in Cambridge, Wisbech St Mary, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Wisbech and Stretham