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Spare a Thought for… (2026) Hal, the computer that famously refused to carry out orders in the film 2001, in the week when, for the first time (as far as we know) an autonomous AI, of its own initiative, breached control parameters to make unauthorised cyberattacks on unsuspecting companies. Brave New World. self-acclaimed “mother of […]

Ada Lovelace. I’ve just discovered she invented the first algorithm during her work with Charles Babbage on what is generally considered the world’s first computer.Born in 1815, she became a self-taught mathematician, and, effectively, the first computer programmer. Apart, perhaps, for Charles Babbage himself. The 62,000 dead following the 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century

The End of 2022 What a year. It (almost) began and (almost) ends with the man who made the most of the presidential limelight for four years. It took eight chapters and 845 pages for the select committee, or congressional panel to confirm what everyone knew back in January, when Trumpo’s attempts to overturn his