Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago set in motion a series of battles in the Pacific between the Japanese and the United States. The turning point in the Pacific came in June 1942, when the U.S.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Codebreaker” tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S.

UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai. (photo by Juliette Vazquez) For the second year in a row, UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai was ...

The Houston Astros' sign-stealing scheme had its origins in an application created by the team's front office, according to a report published Friday night by the Wall Street Journal. Dubbed ...

A World War Two codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park as a Bombe machine operator and checker has died at the age of 98. Ruth Bourne, a Jewish veteran from High Barnet, north London, joined the ...

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...

As you know, Star Wars is one of the biggest franchises of all time and arguably the biggest sci-fi franchise of all times. This explains why there are so many derivative works and why the Star Wars ...

Cheat fans, your wait is over. Pelican has finally pushed to market a meaty Codebreaker. Previous versions not withstanding, the Codebreaker has enjoyed great support from it code-generating staff ...

The death of MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams – whose naked body was found inside an externally locked bag in his bathtub in 2010 – was a “perfect crime,” a confined spaces expert says. Peter Faulding ...