Folks designing The Machine speak absolutely correctly about the need to have integrated security and integrity throughout The Machine’s design. So let’s start by looking at one very low level aspect ...

The US government has a massive data-storage and data-mining capacity—here’s what you need to know about how the government stores and uses that data. Driving 30 miles south from Salt Lake City, Utah, ...

Some fear our history may be in jeopardy. Here are some reasons why. July 9, 2001 — -- When computers came into common use, some archivists and historians got excited over the possibilities of ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other ...

An error detection technique that tests the integrity of digital data in the computer. Parity checking adds an extra parity cell to each 8-bit byte of memory, thus ...

One challenge posed by the steady advancement of computer hardware and software design is how to maintain reasonable continuity with the existing state of technology. Fantastic leaps forward may be ...