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On the face of it, in a capitalist society where you only work for financial and personal reward where the profit margin is everything, the open source model shouldn’t work. So what is it and how does it work?
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Can machines think ? Computer genius Alan Turing tried to answer this philosophical question by devising the Turing test. You might be surprised to find that you take part in this regularly with CAPTCHAs
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Google is often taken for granted .. you type in a phrase, you get instant intellisense help, you hit “search” and seconds later you get hundreds of thousands of results. The speed when you think about it is mind boggling.
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Charles Babbage is widely regarded as the father of the computer. But without electricity what could an early 19th century computer possibly be like.
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Computers are a part of everyday life. At it’s core is the CPU. But what is it and how does it work?
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Ever wondered how Google works? How it finds those results so quickly ? Here’s an info graphic that goes someway to explaining...
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