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How We Might One Day Communicate Through Liquids
A new machine designed at Stanford University sends digital messages without electronics, using common household chemicals. Eventually, similar systems could allow tiny devices to communicate inside the body, or be adapted to environments in which traditional electronics break down.
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How To Read Text In Binary
Although you might not often need to do it, reading text in binary in surprisingly straightforward. Here’s your new nerdy party trick.
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Polynesian People Were Using Binary 600 Years Ago
Binary lies at the heart of our technological lives: those strings of ones and zeroes are fundamental to the way all our digital devices function. But while the invention of binary is usually credited to German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz in the 18th Century, it turns out the Polynesians were using it as far back as…