Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

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 ...

How Assembly Languages Work Fundamentally, the most basic instructions executed by a computer are binary codes, consisting of ones and zeros. Those codes are directly translated into the “on ...

At the core of every computer, smartphone, and digital device lies the transistor, a tiny but powerful component that is crucial for processing data and performing mathematical operations. But how ...

Technology Binary babel: Fixing computing's coding bugs The glut of programming languages is leading to more intractable bugs. Now there might be a way out By Michael Brooks 5 June 2013 ES Leer en ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...