Inside Adastral: BT's Belgium-sized broadband boffinry base
Geek's Guide to Britain Drive-by bragging rights
Adastral Park is BT’s global research and development centre, one of the world’s most pioneering centres of technology and telecommunications.
Like other visitors to the area, I’ve gazed at the Le Corbusier-inspired building and its iconic tower cube rising out of the surrounding flat Suffolk farmland. It announces its …
The amazing magical LED: Has it really been fifty years already?
Simply a better way than making wires white-hot
Next time I hear Coldplay festively crooning "May all your troubles soon be gone, Oh Christmas Lights keep shinin' on," I'd like to think that far from lamenting some lost love, they're paying solemn tribute to the humble but illuminating LED.
The Light Emitting Diode celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. It's easy to …
Quite contrary Somerville: Behind the Ada Lovelace legend
Lovelace Day Behind every famous woman there stands ... another woman
Ada Lovelace is a compellingly romantic figure, irresistible in today’s age of equal geeky opportunities.
The daughter of "mad, bad and dangerous to know" Lord Byron, her mathematics-loving mother Annabella Milibanke purportedly beat the poet out of her with relentless studies in science, maths and logic.
A beauty enthralled by …
