Bletchley Park was decades ahead of Silicon Valley. So what happened?
Gordon Corera, best known as the security correspondent for BBC News, somehow finds time to write authoritative, well-researched and readable…
Exciting new ways of not writing a novel
Procrastination is easier in the age of Google – but less honest
The real reason GPs are grumpy: the robots are coming for them
There’s something wrong with the relationship between patients and their GPs. I’ve spent much of this winter in my local…
What techies are actually doing when they fix your computer
Just before Christmas I achieved something so totally, incredibly amazing that I think it probably ranks among the greatest things…
Alan Turing's last victory
The story of how we cracked Enigma was top secret, then misrepresented. Now it’s a worldwide cult
Google vs governments - let the new battle for free speech begin
Freedom of the press still matters when the presses are virtual
David Cameron’s not the only one in trouble over morris dancing
Dirty dancing David Cameron was accused of causing racial offence by posing with blacked-up Morris dancers, though it was pointed…
Why the real winner from George Osborne’s ‘Google tax’ could be Nigel Farage
George Osborne’s promise to crack down on multinational companies’ avoidance of UK taxes by the use of impenetrable devices such…
How user-friendly is your house?
Old Glaswegian joke: ‘Put your hat and coat on, lassie, I’m off to the pub.’ ‘That’s nice — are you…
In praise of cyberchondria
There’s something perversely satisfying in discovering that your children have inherited your vices. That’s why I was so quietly pleased…
Knowing things isn’t ‘20th century’, Justin Webb. It’s the foundation of a successful life
It’s scarcely possible to open a newspaper or magazine these days without reading an article about how the latest technological…
How to tell a tech bubble from a tech revolution
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
I was forced on to the internet in the 1980s. I still don't belong there
With regard to modern technology, I find that people of around my age — by which I mean people in…
The American economy vs gravity
Reality may be about to reassert itself after an extraordinary hot streak
Hugo Rifkind: What is Facebook?
I’d never noticed that there aren’t any tits on Facebook. The place always seems brimming with right tits to me.…
Google is part of the free press. So hands off, Prime Minister
It is not quite clear what Google did to David Cameron, but the Prime Minister seems to be exacting some…
