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Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part of a global network monitoring attacks on computer networks for 650 customers. And the centre faces a growing threat, with a 140 per cent increase in the... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined... [14 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war
Photo Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies destined for the battlefield. The Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum... [26 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. At the end of the war destruction of most of the Colossus machines was ordered because of the secrecy around the machines, while the blueprints were burnt in a... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo It was used to crack Nazi codes in the World War II and was one of the world's first programmable computers. Kicking off our photo stories this month was the iPhone launch on 9 November. Natasha Lomas went down to Apple's flagship store on Regent... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. It is now being used to crack new messages enciphered using the same system employed by the German... [16 Nov 2007]
Photos: Soldiers test battle simulator tech
Photo The system uses lasers on both heavy armour and light infantry and the MoD claims it is the closest thing to real war. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for... [22 Oct 2007]
Caption Competition: Is it a bird, is it a plane?
Photo The winning entry from reader Chris Gibbs, with reference to the London Mayor's decision to ban pigeons from Trafalgar Square, was: "The pigeons had gone high-tech in their war against Ken Livingstone" Photo credit: PigeonBlog [31 Aug 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo The AAAC has been running since the early 1970s and was developing during the Cold War. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has showcased how top sonar operators are trained to find enemy submarines. [22 Aug 2007]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo In a small field near Portsmouth, a war has been raging for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately this is only a virtual war - part of the global Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) to test whether the armed forces' latest... [14 Jun 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Missile Command is a Cold War classic from 1980 in which players defend cities from the threat of interplanetary ballistic missiles. Pac-Man was another benchmark in arcade gaming, moving away from the space-war style with its hungry little hero. [28 Nov 2006]
Photos: Ealing Studios gets broadband virtual tour
Photo The war films are particularly interesting," he said. An interactive guide to Ealing Studios and its films has been launched by the British Film Institute (BFI). Jonathan Ross presents the guide to the studios, most famous for its comedies... [16 May 2006]
