Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

The abbreviation "MB" stands for "megabyte," a unit of computer storage. Modern business storage systems tend to have capacities that are orders of magnitude greater than the megabyte, with gigabyte ...

Memory can be a tricky thing — sometimes you forget where you put keys just 10 minutes earlier, yet you can remember exactly how many home runs the left fielder for the Yankees hit in 1897. Data ...