Binary code is the perfect place to start — it's conceptually simple but practically complex, and to computers, it's everything.

You can convert letters into binary by using two colors of beads to represent the 'ons' and 'offs.' Use the key below to create your name in binary code and even turn it into a bracelet you can wear.

New Zealand-based telco Spark has launched a campaign that aims to change the way businesses collect gender data.

The internet sees only two genders – male and female – leaving entire communities such as non-binary and trans invisible online. Spark's Beyond Binary Code ...

The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues ...