The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...

(1) A regular computer. The term binary computer may refer to a "classical" computer, meaning "not" a quantum computer. See quantum computing. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

A car driving out of the Zion-Mount Carmel tunnel located in Zion National Park, Utah. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. It’s finally summer! You and your family are on a cross-country road trip. You have ...

"Quantum" may seem like a useless buzzword, but quantum computing is a real thing, and it's actually understandable even if ...

Zue is part of a cadre of scientists that is radically changing the way computers will work in the next century. These men and women envision a future in which the machines will be more prevalent than ...

The awesome Digirule 2U is a small 8-bit programmable binary computer created by developer Bradley Slattery. Launched via Kickstarter this month, the project is coming to the end of its campaign with ...

Almost 25,000 light-years away, two dead stars, each more massive than our Sun, but only 20 kilometers in diameter, orbit one another in less than five hours. This unusual pair of extreme objects, ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...