The history of computing is a story of escalating abstraction. From the painstaking manipulation of machine code to the elegance of high-level languages, every major leap has been defined by a desire ...

Boris Cherny is at the office on a Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco tapping away at his laptop. He’s working but isn’t quite sure what to call the work he’s doing. Six months ago he would have ...

A bungling ATM thief who stole more than £25,000 from unsuspecting cash machine users was finally caught after using his own bank card to check his balance. Felix Urcaciu, 33, and brother Cristian, 37 ...