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Amazing Databases: The MD-Pro
MD:Pro CollageWikimedia CommonsWith a catalog of more than 15 million malicious computer programs, MD:Pro is the Centers for Disease Control of the cybersecurity world. Frame4 Security Services, which...
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The World's Most Amazing Databases: The Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life CollageWikimedia CommonsFour years ago, the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Marine Biological...
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The World's Most Amazing Databases: The International Panel on Climate...
Climate Change CollageWikimedia CommonsBefore the International Panel on Climate Change launched its Data Distribution Centre (DDC) in 1998, researchers who needed climate-change projections had to get...
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Obama Gives Government Agencies Four Months To Make Digital Plan
The National ArchivesNCinDC via FlickrDespite this era's amazing advances in data storage and data mining, the accumulated records of our federal bureaucracy are largely — and perhaps unsurprisingly —...
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Scientists Build a Data Storage Device Out of Salmon DNA
Storing Data in Salmon DNAJoe Mabel via WikimediaThe entire Library of Congress, on ice.It's good smoked, straight up on the grill with a little lemon and butter, or rolled into sushi. And now, thanks...
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World's Smallest Memory Bit Stores Data Using Just 12 Atoms
Smallest Storage UnitSebastian Loth/CFELSpin-polarized imaging with a scanning tunneling microscope reveals the structure of the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It consists of just 12 iron...
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Using Heat to Record Information Could Improve Data Storage Speed a Hundred-Fold
Heat-Based Magnetic SwitchingRichard Evans, University of YorkThe laser pulse temporarily aligns the two ferrimagnetic materials (the red and blue in this image) while powered on, and then the...
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DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
DNA StorageNorbert von der GroebenUnder ultraviolet light, petri dishes containing cells glow red or green depending upon the orientation of a specific section of genetic code inside the cells' DNA....
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FYI: What’s The Most Durable Way To Store Information?
USB DrivesDavid Arky/Getty ImagesDespite claims to the contrary, the storage media in wide use today—CD-ROMs, spinning hard drives, flash memory, etc.—aren’t very durable. “You’re talking years, not...
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DNA Can Store Your Digital Data For Up To 2,000 Years
A DNA strandStuart Caie, CC BY 2.0Your DNA holds an incredible amount of information in a very small space. Recently, researchers have looked to DNA as a method to store large amounts of digital...
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Which Brands Of Hard Drive Are Most Likely To Fail?
Gadgets A new analysis points fingers These Are The Hard Drives Most Likely To Fail…
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Scientists Build a Data Storage Device Out of Salmon DNA
Science It’s good smoked, straight up on the grill with a little lemon and butter, or rolled into sushi. And now, thanks to researchers at Taiwan’s Tsing Hua University and the… It’s good smoked,...
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World's Smallest Memory Bit Stores Data Using Just 12 Atoms
Technology The world’s smallest magnetic data storage unit is made of just 12 atoms, squeezing an entire byte into just 96 atoms, a significant shrinkage in the world of information… The world’s...
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Using Heat to Record Information Could Improve Data Storage Speed a Hundred-Fold
Gadgets An international team of researchers claims to have figured out a way to use ultrafast bursts of heat, rather than the typical magnetic field, to record a bit of information… An international...
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DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
Technology DNA is the blueprint for life, and now it can serve as a computer to monitor life’s processes. Bioengineers transformed DNA into a one-bit memory system that can record,… DNA is the...
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FYI: What’s The Most Durable Way To Store Information?
Technology 1. Engrave it on a piece of platinum. 2. Bury the platinum in the desert. Despite claims to the contrary, the storage media in wide use today—CD-ROMs, spinning hard drives, flash memory,...
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DNA Can Store Your Digital Data For Up To 2,000 Years
Technology Stop throwing all your data into a digital black hole Your DNA holds an incredible amount of information in a very small space. Recently, researchers have looked to DNA as a method to store...
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Which Brands Of Hard Drive Are Most Likely To Fail?
Gadgets A new analysis points fingers These Are The Hard Drives Most Likely To Fail…
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Storing data on DNA may not be practical, but it's possible—and it sure...
Technology Researchers stored an operating system and a short movie on DNA With a special coding technique, DNA data storage is 60% more efficient and is quite robust.
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Permanently delete files from any device
DIY Send your trash beyond the point of no return. Just moving a digital file to the trash bin won't get rid of it. Want to make sure your data is gone forever? Here's what to do on computers,...
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