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The new Black Country Customs unit offers echoes from three eras and allows you to blend elements from each into new effects

We've collected a gallery of the best supercomputers ever invented for you to enjoy.

Over the years, gadgets, gizmos and everyday items have been created or dreamt up at a point in time that turned out to be far before their time.

Cryptography is the art of keeping information secret and safe by transforming it into form that unintended recipients cannot understand. It makes secure data transmission over the internet possible.

The Royal Society is the national academy of science in the UK and our fundamental purpose, reflected in our founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science, encouraging its development and use for the benefit of humanity. The Royal Society has played a part in some of the most significant and life-changing discoveries in scientific history and our scientists continue to make outstanding contributions to science.

Steampunk is a response to growing estrangement with the interpretation of modernity and the ruthless rupture from the past as the precondition for progress.

The unholy union of AI and HR is coming.

Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Annabella Milbanke, became the world's first programmer in 1843 with her algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

"So...do we know what Nadine Dorries thinks an algorithm is?"

Computers Or From steam power to quantum tunneling in 150 years A history and description of computers is immediately faced with a task of determining w...