On this day in 1912 Alan Turing was born. Turing created the worlds first electrical computer during World War 2 in a successful effort to break Germany's complex enigma code. He killed himself aged 41 by eating an apple he had poisoned with cyanide, possibly due to the results of a chemical castration on his mental health.
And now the news:
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- Turtles fossilised in sex embrace
- New Zealand's 'night parrot' brought back from the...
- U.S. sues to return Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mong...
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- Elephant pregnancy mystery solved
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- Minne statue surfaces in Wirth Lake
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The sad fate of Turing and Gordon Brown's apology on behalf of the British Government:
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