Sentences with phrase «tiny bits of data»

They allow websites to store tiny bits of data in your web browser and remember various preferences between your visits.

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Research suggests that clearing cookies — tiny bits of software that advertising companies load on a browser to collect data on the websites people visit — is one of the few privacy - protection steps that have been embraced by American internet users.

Scientists fashioned a tiny crystal that stores snippets of quantum information — which unlike computer data «bits» that come only in 0s and 1s, can also exist as both 0 and 1 simultaneously.

The hard drives in most desktop computers are divided into lots of tiny magnetised areas that each encode the smallest possible unit of data — one bit, which is either a 1 or a 0.

Hard drives store data on discs coated with a metallic film divided into tiny magnetic regions, each of which stores a single bit — the more regions you can squeeze on to a disc, the bigger the capacity.

Digitally coding these shapes requires less data than the conventional technique of making a «bit map» of an image, which divides it into a mosaic of tiny picture points or pixels, and describes each pixel in digital code.

Individuals everywhere are contributing tiny bits of information to OpenStreetMap.org, a free world map that anyone can add to or edit, building up geographical data in a collaborative way.

In its current state the antenna can transmit only a tiny fraction of the data it was intended to send back to Earth — 10.5 bits a second instead of 136 000 bits a second.

This will let you get most of the file now, and then on launch day you'll have to wait just a tiny bit of time to get the rest of the data to play.

Disabling push notifications can also save a bit of data, although push notifications are rather tiny.