URLs
Some friends of mine recently shared a link through social media that gave the offer of free airline tickets. Sounds great, right? Surprise! They were being fooled by a fake
Digital vs. Analogue
Computers are digital devices. What is digital information and how is it different from analogue information? …
AI Hallucinations
Artificial Intelligence is, as its name indicates, artificial. It is the product of human work. (Just how “intelligent” it is can be debated… but that’s another post!) However, it also
Digitizing Colours
Computers are digital machines. They operate on digits (well, specifically on electrical signals, but the best way our human brains can understand those on/off switches is in the numbers of
Megabytes and Mebibytes
Computers, as electronic devices, function at their most basic level as a vast series of electric switches, turning off and on. Each switch state is known as a bit, which
Data Packets
Click “send” on a file or email or message, and you might picture it being sent like a letter to its destination. In reality, your file is torn up into
Primary Memory
Primary memory is incredibly important to the functioning of a computer …it’s also not always fully understood what it is and how it works. Learn more here! What is Primary
Packet Switching
When you click “send” on an email, you might think that your message gets sent like a paper letter – one message, delivered from place to place until it arrives
IP Addresses
The internet is a huge system. How can specific things be easily found in such an enormous space? Any device that connects to the internet is assigned an IP (Internet Protocol)
Motherboards
At the heart of a computer lies the motherboard. A computer couldn’t function without it. But what exactly is a motherboard? The motherboard of a computer is a printed circuit