In the face of rising emissions from data centres, researchers are turning to micro-explosions in glass and the use of DNA to solve big data's big problem.

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Carina Imburgia is at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. To address these limitations, Zhang et al. have developed ...

Computer scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing a new approach to online “deep storage” of digital data that promises to have many advantages over traditional backup ...

Modern solid-state drives are fast, silent, shock-resistant, and can be used with any computer, from laptops to enterprise servers. Unlike hard drives with spinning platters, SSDs use flash memory to ...