Jim engineering student at RIT Jim Heaney has created a new binary decoder kit which he has launched via Kickstarter. The project has already raised its required pledge goal thanks to nearly 100 ...

This week, I’m debuting a new feature on Wired Decode called “Decoder Ring.” It’s a roundup of topical things sharp-eyed readers and I noticed that have unintended meanings, hidden puzzles and other ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...