A computer-based application resides on a computer system. The computer system provides the physical medium on which the application data are stored and the processing capacity to manipulate stored ...

Data continues to eat the world, for better and worse. Driving most tech innovations but hidden behind the "AI" marketing campaign, it recently won two Nobel prizes.

Storage and memory are the two major holding areas for programs and data in a computer, tablet or smartphone, and their interplay is the fundamental architecture of computer processing.

Therefore, all data that we want a computer to process needs to be converted into binary. The binary system is known as a ‘base 2’ system. This is because: there are only two digits to select ...