Three assessments of the online world

Most of us know that computers can beat humans at chess. Did you also know that they can now beat us at Go. Perhaps the bigger question is why humans chose tabletop games as the benchmark of intellige

How on earth did David Crookes manage to write the otherwise excellent article about Andy Grove (see issue 375, p123) without mentioning the IBM PC with Intel’s 8088 (and optional 8087) inside, which

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, third generation owner of the LEGO Group, was determined to bring technological innovation to the brick – and 40 years ago, the company introduced the first ever smart brick to allow children to program robots

The decade that saw great leaps for gadgets, and Furbies too

I like to think of us – readers, writers, suppliers – as all being jolly serious folk. No room for RGB bling, don’t even whisper the word “gaming”. We all want to look like we’re making impactful deci