This week, I’m debuting a new feature on Wired Decode called “Decoder Ring.” It’s a roundup of topical things sharp-eyed readers and I noticed that have unintended meanings, hidden puzzles and other ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

Scientists have made a quantum computer that breaks free from the binary system. Computers as we know them today rely on binary information: they operate in ones and zeroes, storing more complex ...

Researchers out of the University of Innsbruck have fabricated a quantum computer that leverages a complex quantum digit system as opposed to the traditional qubits. For those who may not know how a ...

Just when it seems like the world of finance could not get any more complicated, some industry insiders believe the era of the quantum computer is imminent. In a recently published paper, Ovidiu ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

[Max Breedon] found an old Apple IIe clone twenty years ago. He recently dug this Epson AP-200 out of the salvage heap and quickly discovered that the keyboard decoder chip was fried. The old chip was ...

Broussard is a data journalism professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is the author of More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech ...