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<p>Welcome to <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2630-number-representation-in-hardware/">a fundamental area of computer design</a>: how numbers are represented in hardware! This can ultimately mean the difference between a blazing fast machine and a costly $475 million bug – Pentium 4...

<p>At a high level, JPEG is a lossy image compression technique. What you may not realize is that achieving this <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2792-jpeg-explained/">required a fascinating blend</a> of human perception, elegant signal processing, and clever engineering prowess.</p>...

<p>Building sustainable computing systems is not only the conscientious thing to do, but curbing carbon emissions may result in <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2474-sustainable-computing/">a seismic shift</a> in how we develop the hardware of the future.</p> <p><a...

This is doable. However, while the installation might be easier, your rig would now be tied down to the multiple drives, since the MBR would point to a bootloader on two separate drives. Thus, if you remove one of the drives (or sometimes, if you add a new drive), grub might not be able to pull...

You can certainly do the disk partitioning at other times and in other ways. During Windows installation is definitely possible (you similarly have a choice when selecting where to install it), and you can also do it from Linux directly with a tool like gparted. If you already have Windows...

<p>Dual booting is a great way to get <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2422-dual-boot-windows-ubuntu/">the best of both worlds</a> of Windows and Linux. It's relatively straightforward and it's a great opportunity to learn more about computers and how software works.</p> <p><a...

<p>There are many different ways to organize files and directories in a computer, but in the abstract of how that happens at the hardware and OS level is typically assigned to the file system. <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2377-file-system-explainer/">This is how it works</a>.</p>...

<p>While the race to quantum supremacy is picking up pace, it's still very early stages to call it a "competition." And yet funding is being poured into this field to help push humanity to <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2361-state-of-quantum-computing-systems/">the next big era in...

Loved this article! Great view of the Linux landscape! Coming from a Gentoo (seriously, install gentoo!) and Ubuntu Mate user

<p>Today, there are at least 1 million miners for Bitcoin alone. How is this all happening? What role is the miner playing? And how might this change the landscape of computing in the future?</p> <div class="video-container"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope...

<p>Quantum computers are beginning to emerge in many industry and research labs. But what are qubits? And are <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2280-what-is-quantum-computing/">the challenges ahead</a> to control the quantum properties of our universe and leverage that for computing?</p>...