: 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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Furthermore, unlike the wetware issues associated with human intelligence residing in a biological brain, AGI can simply move around bits and bytes within its software and hardware.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
For a Big Endian to talk to a Little Endian, the byte order had to be reversed in real time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
Once the robot goes off for a swim, however, traditional wireless signals won’t work, but the dock has its own sonar that can talk to the robot at several bytes per second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2025
Percentages make for great sound bytes and may offer more immediate intelligence.
—Susan Lamotte, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
For a Big Endian to talk to a Little Endian, the byte order had to be reversed in real time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
Once the robot goes off for a swim, however, traditional wireless signals won’t work, but the dock has its own sonar that can talk to the robot at several bytes per second.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2025
Percentages make for great sound bytes and may offer more immediate intelligence.
—Susan Lamotte, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Byte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byte. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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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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