O could be for Oneiric Ocelot, but we’ll spare you. Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, name their releases after an animal, together with an adjective – the adjective describing some aspect of the animal’s behaviour – eg Maverick Meerkat. Daft, yes, … Continue reading
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Alan Turing Monopoly, to be precise. Board game maker Winning Moves has produced an Alan Turing edition of the long-standing family favourite. Alan Turing had a theory about Monopoly, believing there was a code-based way to win. He tried out … Continue reading
Linux: it had to be. We’ll spare you the technical background. What you need to know is that it’s a leading operating system: more than 90% of the 500 fastest supercomputers use one flavour or another of Linux, including the … Continue reading