There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

ASCII—aka the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, aka the numeric codes that represent those little shapes on your keyboard—turns fifty this year. And while it’s since been surpassed ...

'ASCII art ', which reproduces photographs and illustrations by combining letters and symbols, is one of the cultures that is inseparable from the history of the Internet, especially the Japanese ...

Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

In context: Most, if not all, large language models censor responses when users ask for things considered dangerous, unethical, or illegal. Good luck getting Bing to tell you how to cook your ...

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QR codes are usually associated with ASCII text like URLs or serial numbers, but did you know you can also encode binary data into them? To demonstrate this concept, [MattKC] embarked on a journey to ...

The book, “The Martian” by Andy Weir demonstrates jaw-dropping science and engineering principles, which makes it one of the best pure sci-fi novels of the year ...