Ever sign up for internet that claimed 20 Mb per second, only to find that your files download at 2.5 MB per second? They aren't lying to you. Look closely and you'll see that those two figures use ...

"Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library," wrote information technology visionary Vannevar Bush in the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic ...

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Binary and hexadecimal numbers systems underpin the way modern computer systems work. Low-level interactions with hexadecimal (hex) and binary are uncommon in the world of Java programming, but ...

Folks designing The Machine speak absolutely correctly about the need to have integrated security and integrity throughout The Machine’s design. So let’s start by looking at one very low level aspect ...

Some applications need a set of options that can be combined in a variety of ways. In that scenario, a favorite developers' trick is to have each bit in a Byte represent one of the options. By using ...

The abbreviation "MB" stands for "megabyte," a unit of computer storage. Modern business storage systems tend to have capacities that are orders of magnitude greater than the megabyte, with gigabyte ...