Technolunacy: the use of technology at the expense of logic. Ordering a pizza used to be simple. Then some genius invented an App. Welcome to the brave new world, where common sense is being devoured, ...

Shah Rukh Khan has found another fan in Humanoid Sophia and the superstar says he is simulated by "every bit and byte" of the robot. During an interactive session at the ongoing World Congress on ...

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An error detection technique that tests the integrity of digital data in the computer. Parity checking adds an extra parity cell to each 8-bit byte of memory, thus ...

To ensure data integrity, it's wise to frequently calculate file checksums. The C program in Listing 1 calculates the checksum of a file using a 16-bit CRC (cyclic redundancy check). The program ...