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Enjoy a free virtual night at the museum with the University of Cambridge Museums' Twilight with the Museums 2022 Digital Sleepover on Wednesday, February 16.

Seventy years ago Lyons & Co ran the world’s first business computer program, marking the a start of business automation. This is a theme of computing that is still very relevant today. The ...

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Richard Speed Mon 1 Mar 2021 // 10:28 UTC Share Copy The UK's cathedrals of geekdom are set to reopen in May as The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) celebrated the successful conclusion of its retro-themed Microlympics. By all accounts, the Microlympics event (which had various age groups play a variety of retro games on a BBC emulator) was a great success for TNMOC as scores were notched up in classic games like Elite and Revs (both of which demonstrated this hack is as awful now as he was then at anything that didn't involve solving Scott Adams' or Infocom's pu...

© Christies Last month, younger adults with time and money on their hands rocked the investing world when they descended en masse on GameStop and AMC Entertainment, taking on the hedge funds and investment banks. Christie’s is hoping to lure this rabble into shaking up the traditionally staid world of art auctions. It is offering Everydays – The First 5000 Days (2021), an artwork by Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple to his 1.8 million Instagram followers. In 2007, Winkelmann began creating an image a day, which he has collected together into this one piece (pictured right). It was 13 yea...