: a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity that consists of a group of eight bits and that is used especially to represent an alphanumeric character compare word entry 1 sense 10
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What if data became not a burden, but a valuable resource, by mining every byte and correlating it with other data through the power of AI?
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Jamie Lerner, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
All the apps, photos, music and other files on our devices can quickly add up, using up every byte of storage on our phones.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
Too often, though, the play feels overloaded with ideas, themes and moral conundrums scattered in random bursts and bytes.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 31 July 2024
Data can be retrieved far more quickly, too, with Zen 5 able to fetch and decode twice as many bytes of data each clock cycle as Zen 4.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 24 July 2024
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Jamie Lerner, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
All the apps, photos, music and other files on our devices can quickly add up, using up every byte of storage on our phones.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
Too often, though, the play feels overloaded with ideas, themes and moral conundrums scattered in random bursts and bytes.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 31 July 2024
Data can be retrieved far more quickly, too, with Zen 5 able to fetch and decode twice as many bytes of data each clock cycle as Zen 4.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 24 July 2024
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“Byte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byte. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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byte
noun
: a group of eight bits that a computer handles as a unit
Etymology
possibly an altered form of bite
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