Scientists crack the code to using DNA like a computer hard drive

Researchers have made DNA storage rewritable, overcoming one of its biggest limitations. The breakthrough could turn DNA into a practical alternative to today’s energy-hungry data centers.
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Walmart Data Ventures debuts Scintilla In-Store platform

The platform helps reduce out-of-stocks, streamline execution and delivers a seamless omni-shopping experience. They can also help ensure that items shifted on the shelf during busy shopping periods ...
IEEE

Using Cuckoo Filters to Improve Performance in Object Store-based Very Large Databases

Abstract: Today, there is a growing trend to leverage a cheaper data lake such as AWS S3 for storage of tables in very large databases deviating from traditional databases. Here, data is organized as ...
ScienceAlert

This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth ...
IEEE

Underwater Object Detection Using Synthetic Data

Abstract: The ability to detect life in challenging underwater environments holds the potential to preserve many aquatic species and coral reefs. Recent object detection research has witnessed a ...
TechSpot

Project Silica breakthrough lets Microsoft store digital data in glass for 10,000 years

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...
Inc

Microsoft Just Found a Way to Store Data for Millennia by Using a Common Kitchen Item

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...
Scientific American

Robot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millennia

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...
InAVate

Microsoft finds method to store data within glass for 10,000 years

Microsoft Research has announced Project Silica, a method to read/write data into small slabs of glass. The glass offers extreme stability, with experiments suggesting the data would be stable for ...
The Guardian

Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy ...
PC World

Is Pyrex glass the answer to long-term data storage?

PCWorld examines Microsoft’s Project Silica breakthrough, which now uses common borosilicate glass like Pyrex for ultra-long-term data storage lasting over 10,000 years. This technology addresses ...
Nature

Microsoft team creates ‘revolutionary’ data-storage system that lasts for millennia

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.