A couple of weeks ago I wrote in this column about the disparity between decimal and binary multiples. I wrote about how the prefixes "kilo" and "mega" and "giga" and all the others, right up to ...

Just like we measure day-to-day things like time in seconds, mass in kilograms, and height in meters, computer memory and disc space are measured based on bytes. You would have probably come across ...

Last year, WIRED magazine talked about the ‘Rise of the Snack Culture’ in entertainment and other creative media consumption. How entertainment is increasingly being consumed in byte sized chunks. Be ...