The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...
One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has “on” and “off” states, it can be used to store information. In a laptop computer, the ones and zeroes that make up ...
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