byte
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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
Nothing’s press release says the Phone 1’s Nothing OS will distill Android to “just the essentials, where every byte has a purpose.”
From The Verge ● Mar. 23, 2022
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
What is DNA if not bits and bytes of human beings?
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
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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