The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...

UK-based startup SPhotonix was formed in 2024 to commercialize what's known as 5D optical data storage, often referred to as "memory crystals." Essentially, the technique encodes ...

Magnetic tape has been used as a storage medium continuously from one of the first contemporary computers onwards – the UNIVAC, in 1951. That gives it 60 years of unbroken use, from gigantic ...

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As long as video games have been in existence, they've been seriously constrained by technical limitations. There's only so much RAM, CPU power, and storage space to go around, but that's not always a ...

Wait a moment — have I stepped into a time machine? We all know that magnetic tape is so….yesterday. Isn’t all storage these days on solid-state or hard-disk drive (HDD) memory? The answer is yes, it ...

Physicists have proposed an innovative new data storage medium. The technique is based on specific properties of antiferromagnetic materials that had previously resisted experimental examination.

I feel a little bad picking on cave paintings and petroglyphs. They're the oldest known forms of symbolic communication and everybody has to start somewhere. The problem with cave paintings and ...