Imagine that future civilisations are looking for evidence of us. Digital human life. And they find nothing. No Buzzfeed. No Slack. No GitHub. Nothing. That’s actually a distinct possibility as the ...

Microsoft has detailed a major breakthrough in its work on synthetic DNA storage, specifically on improving data throughput. The proof-of-concept is the subject of a new study from Microsoft Research ...

Microsoft just made history as the company created a significant breakthrough in using artificial DNA to store data and information. The company operated with the University of Washington's Molecular ...

The same four chemical building blocks behind almost all life on earth could one day be used replace traditional computer storage. Read now The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come ...

If you run out of storage you can just spit. Boffins from Microsoft and the University of Washington are planning to encode cloud data onto synthetic DNA molecules. The team successfully encoded about ...

It won't be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years. Image: iStockphoto/Svisio Not all of the nine zettabytes of data ...

The University of Washington’s Luis Ceze and Lee Organick prepare DNA containing digital data for sequencing. (UW Photo / Tara Brown Photography) Twist Bioscience says it’s extending its collaboration ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Ramya Krishnamoorthy shares a detailed case ...

Move over tape and optical. Microsoft is working with a genetics startup to test the feasibility of creating a synthetic DNA-based storage system that can archive zettabyte-scale data. Microsoft will ...

The technology giant wants to develop information storage for its power-hungry data centers that uses DNA instead of magnetic tape drives. A few years ago, Harvard professor and bio-engineering ...

“ Microsoft Monday” takes a look back at the past week of news related to Microsoft. This week, “Microsoft Monday” includes details about management restructuring, 200MB of data being stored on DNA ...

A cutting-edge investment from the software giant could presage a revolution in where and how we store our booming quantities of data. According to some tech cognoscenti, a data storage crisis lies on ...