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He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

He was a darling of business journalists because of his accessibility and willingness to give a quick byte or quote, and his views were much sought after.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

The reality, they patiently say, is more nuanced and complicated than a tweet or a talk-radio sound byte.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

On Tuesday, Ramsay took to Instagram to share a sound byte from Steve Allen’s recent LBC Radio program in which he fielded a viewer question about her being on "Celebrity Master Chef Australia."

From Fox News ● Oct. 20, 2021

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The 216 tape, because it was 216 bytes, you know.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

“You would be shocked what he knows about bits and bytes and all the productivity potentially enhancing things of AI in detail,” Druckenmiller said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

When it ran out of powdered carbon, this chip, which only had 60 bytes of memory, would flip from a program that said I am full to a program that said I’m empty.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

The whole house of digital bits and bytes will come crashing down.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

"The rover currently parses the signal into bytes, then identifies the specific sequence the Hab sends. That way, natural radio waves won't throw off the homing. If the bytes aren't right, the rover ignores them."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir