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 ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, ...
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 ...
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 ...
One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits ...
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