Scientists have made a quantum computer that breaks free from the binary system. Computers as we know them today rely on binary information: they operate in ones and zeroes, storing more complex ...

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 ...

Just when it seems like the world of finance could not get any more complicated, some industry insiders believe the era of the quantum computer is imminent. In a recently published paper, Ovidiu ...

Lyric's tiny chip is full of possibilities. Traditional computer processing is based on 1 and 0, yes and no, but Lyric Semiconductor wants us to consider the power of 'maybe'. The Cambrdige, ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where the metallic innards of our computers are replaced by organic materials. Recent research has shown that ...

The decimal system of counting is part of our language, math, and the measurement units used by all right-thinking nations. It's so deeply engrained in how we operate that it's often difficult to ...

Most novelists don’t write code. Still fewer teach it. But Gene Luen Yang is a rarity: a nationally renowned writer with a techie past and an endless appetite for education. He's taught computer ...

When most of us look at computers, we see wiring and hard plastic cases. Maybe some blinking lights, or switches. When Mark Richards looks at those same computers, he sees art. You might come to see ...