Binary code is the perfect place to start — it's conceptually simple but practically complex, and to computers, it's everything.

For a multidisciplinary group of researchers at the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, U.K., the mission was to build a new kind of computer that would transcend the limitations of the binary ...

A virtual computer typically has the same functionality as the physical machine it's replicating, but rather than being built out of wires and silicon, its simulated inside another program and is ...

Scientists have made a quantum computer that breaks free from the binary system.

I deas man David Delahunty is behind a new flash storage device which looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the ...

Do you know how to read binary codes? Pretty impressive if you do, since they’re a computer’s language. Binary coding is a system of counting that boils down to two digits—one (1) and zero ...

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 ...

Inhabitants of Mangareva island spoke the language of computers centuries before the first programmer was born, creating their own fusion of binary and decimal systems ...