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 ...

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 ...

Serial Kickstarter entrepreneur and electronics enthusiast Bradley Slattery has launched his seventh campaign this month which takes the form of the Digirule2, an awesome programmable binary computer ...

101010: That’s the number 42 represented in binary, which is the mathematical way today’s binary computers see every single piece of information flowing through them, whether it’s a stock price, the ...

Memo to the developers of superfast quantum computers: give up on the familiar 1s-and-0s binary system used in conventional computers. By switching to a novel five-state system, you will find it ...

A computer that uses ternary circuits comprising three stages rather than binary circuits, which operate in two. A ternary computer named Setun was built at the Moscow State University in 1958, and an ...

Thirty years ago the height of posh was owning a portable landline phone. Now our smartphones are personal computers that can process natural language commands and run AI models on-device. In another ...

Quantum computing could make it easier to process massive amounts of information in the near future. Unlike traditional computers, which still store data in binary bits of zeros and ones, quantum ...