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Soon you’ll be backing up your hard drive using DNA

A team of researchers in the U.S. has successfully encoded a 5.27 megabit book using DNA microchips, and they then read the book using DNA sequencing.  Their experiments show that DNA could be used for long-term storage of digital information.

Quoting from a Phys.Org : “DNA is made up of nucleotides, and in theory at least each nucleotide can be used to encode two bits of data. This means that the density is a massive 1 million…

The Future of Computing and Technology

6 December 2011 – The New York Times published a special report on the future of computing and technology, a series of news articles plus essays from some of the leading minds in computing.

For the special report click here.

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