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toxcspdrmn writes:
The BBC is reporting that Nintendo is replacing straps for its Wii console, following customer complaints that the straps are breaking during use, resulting in the Wiimote flying out of users' hands and through TVs and windows. New units will come with an "enhanced" strap.
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toxcspdrmn writes:
Volunteers at Bletchley Park have recreated a working replica of the electromechanical bombe used to crack the Enigma encryption. The bombe was designed by Polish cryptologists and refined by Alan Turing and colleagues at Bletchley Park. It joins a recreated electronic Colossus — generally considered the first electronic computer, also at Bletchley Park. Impressive work when you consider that Winston Churchill ordered the originals to be completely destroyed at the end of WWII.
