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The Equifax Data Breach Pt. II: The Bits Hit The Fan

Published 2019-04-12 bits equifax pt

After its momentous breach, Equifax's CEO Richard Smith said: “Equifax will not be defined by this incident, but rather by how we respond.” Well, he was spot on…

Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different

Published 2026-06-18 aac frequencies encoder

Last year, SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder for the first time in over a decade. The new one (Fraunhofer’s libfdk_aac) delivers higher…

Talking Arduino, bits, and boards with Dr. Duino

Published 2020-10-06 duino arduino bits

Sara shares the story of a developer conference that was smoke bombed by an Arduino bot gone haywire. It was this chaos that inspired her to dig deeper into Ard…

YACHT - Plastic Soul

Published 2014-02-02 deconstruct claire bits

Claire and Jona of the band YACHT deconstruct their brand new single Plastic Soul, a fun pop song about human suffering. They explain how technology inspired th…

Rainbow Photons Pack More Computing Power

Published 2017-06-29 photons rainbow bits

Quantum bits, aka qubits, can simultaneously encode 0 and 1. But multicolored photons could enable even more states to exist at the same time, ramping up comput…

Heidi Helen is a Designer/Developer/Business Owner

Published 2019-06-19 illuminated bits heidi

Heidi Helen is a freelance designer and newly shipped app developer. With Illuminated Bits, she took a large lead in many of the design decisions, but knew that…

Person or Not

Published 2016-04-14 airplay clockwise bits

Facebook's chat-bot future, popular tech misconceptions, Apple Watch 2's killer features, and the strange case of AirPlay on Android.