Binary code is the perfect place to start — it's conceptually simple but practically complex, and to computers, it's everything. Binary is the power behind the 4K YouTube video you're watching ...

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001. Those ones and zeros might not look like anything to you, but in binary code the numbers are actually saying “Hello!”. Any code that uses just ...

The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues ...