The Latest Breaking News from Alan Turing

Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples of their technological prowess.

The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning of computing. Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote what’s generally considered the first computer program. As she did, she wondered about the limits of what computers could do.

Other lives: Mathematician who had teaching and leadership positions at the Open University and several Oxford University colleges

'Updated' model that couldn't be broken arrived too late in the war to turn the tide

Old £20 and £50 notes will stop being legal tender after September 30 when the notes are replaced with polymer versions which are longer lasting and have measures to avoid being copied

Queues form at Bank of England to swap old £20s and £50s before they stop being legal tender

In the era of the Queen’s coronation, the UK was a land of deprivation and deference, but profound social and economic change was about to transform the nation and then the monarchy

Just last year the Queen announced the government would be outlawing the practice of conversion therapy

You could bag yourself a holiday if you solve it