Nick Heath

The Turing Machine, devised at the dawn of the information age, is a theoretical device that models how computation takes place. To mark the centenary of the birth of its creator, British mathematician Alan Turing, European researchers have recreated the machine in Lego.

The largest robotics lab in the UK has now officially opened. TechRepublic has shots of the next generation of bots being developed at the lab – from tiny swarming bots to humanoid machines able to speak and act like humans.

TechRepublic has been playing with a Raspberry Pi for the best part of a week. Here’s everything you need to know about the $40 Linux computer.

A close-up look at one of the most anticipated computers of 2012, the $40 Raspberry Pi.

Researchers at the Institute of Computational Cosmology in the UK are using the Cosma 4 supercomputer to recreate the evolution of the universe from about 300,000 years after the Big Bang until the present day.

An exhibition in the UK explores the history of the internet, from the creation of ARPANET in the late 1960s through to its possible future uses, such as the Internet of Things.

If you weren’t quick enough to snap up a Raspberry Pi before they sold out then here are five pocket-sized computing devices worth checking out while you wait to get your Pi.

An exhibition at Bletchley Park, the home of British codebreaking during WWII, brings together the possessions that defined the life of the father of computing, Alan Turing.

Smartphone and web apps are making healthcare cheaper and more effective – reducing visits to the doctors and providing patients with diagnoses and medical advice in their own home. Here are five apps that show the role that computing will play in the future of healthcare.

The cashless society moved one step closer today with the launch of an app in the UK that allows smartphone users to send money from their handset.

ZDNet’s Jennifer Leggio says in these times of rampant social media adoption peer recommendations on content are becoming more prevalent over Google’s static (albeit savvy) search that first delivers the corporate sales page.

One of the most interesting groups of technologists in China are the shanzhai. They form small companies which cluster together in larger groups, trying to produce new gizmos so fast that nobody can quite catch up with them.