Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 There are several companies working on using synthetic DNA as ...

imec, a global leader in nanoelectronics and digital innovation, and Atlas Data Storage, a pioneer of production-scale DNA data storage, today announce a new strategic partnership to accelerate the ...

Even before the AI boom, data centers were already consuming staggering amounts of energy and natural resources. Now, generative AI has intensified that strain, exposing just how unsustainable our ...

An illustration shows a strand of engineered DNA passing through a nanoscale sensor, where its physical structure can be decoded as digital information. DNA nanostructures could one day serve as ultra ...

Synthetic DNA is an attractive medium for long-term data storage because of its density, ease of copying, sustainability, and longevity. Recent advances have focused on the development of new encoding ...

The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, manuscripts and music for thousands of years, scientists say. When you purchase ...

The world is drowning in data. Every day, YouTube alone uploads 20 million new videos. That’s in addition to the selfies, emails, 8K videos and Zoom calls. We’re straining the physical limits of the ...

This “DNA cassette” holds an astonishing 36 petabytes of information, enough to contain more than three billion songs. Researchers see this innovation as a potential game-changer in the world of ...

The value of digital data of all types has always been important, but with the growth of today’s AI models and the data centers that support them, the need for data has exploded. This is an important ...

Humanity is generating data faster than it can be stored, and the hard drives and tape libraries that quietly underpin the cloud are already straining to keep up. As the gap widens between what we ...