E&T news weekly #21 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week

Friday October 10 2014   Jonathan Wilson, online managing editor Turing’s codebreaking machine voted engineers’ favourite It’s been a momentous week for the mathematical legacy of Alan Turing. Not only did the biopic of his life, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kiera Knightley, debut at the London Film Festival, Turing’s World War Two codebreaking machine, nicknamed The Bombe, was also voted the engineers’ favourite artefact in a new survey to mark the 30th anniversary of the Engineering Heritage Awards. Police struggling with cybercrime says top policeman A worrying admission that the robbers are smarter than the cops these … Continue reading E&T news weekly #21 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week