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He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

He was a darling of business journalists because of his accessibility and willingness to give a quick byte or quote, and his views were much sought after.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

And that a byte of data on a mobile increases the phone’s mass by one quectogram?

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

On Tuesday, Ramsay took to Instagram to share a sound byte from Steve Allen’s recent LBC Radio program in which he fielded a viewer question about her being on "Celebrity Master Chef Australia."

From Fox News ● Oct. 20, 2021

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It should work a lot like email, in which data composed of bits and bytes exist as a whole in one place, are disassembled, and then electronically transmitted to another place where they are reassembled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“You would be shocked what he knows about bits and bytes and all the productivity potentially enhancing things of AI in detail,” Druckenmiller said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

When it ran out of powdered carbon, this chip, which only had 60 bytes of memory, would flip from a program that said I am full to a program that said I’m empty.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

The whole house of digital bits and bytes will come crashing down.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

If you can contact it, I can draw hex numbers on the wheels and you can send me six bytes at a time.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir