Misunderstood – Study Reveals Widespread Confusion Over App Tracking
The language utilized for app tracking privacy settings is a source of confusion for consumers. According to new research from the University of Bath’s School of…
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Processing Data at the Speed of Light – “Nano-Excitonic Transistor”
What allows Ant-Man, a character in the Marvel movies, to generate such formidable energy out of his small body? The answer can be found in…
“100 Times Better” – Tiny Magnetic Vortices Could Transform High-Performance Computers
Small magnetic whirlpools could revolutionize high-performance computer memory storage. Magnets create invisible fields that attract certain materials. A familiar example is refrigerator magnets. However, they…
Scientists Have Found a Way To Manipulate Digital Data Stored in DNA
Nonlinear decision-making with enzymatic neural networks DNA can be utilized to reliably store massive amounts of digital data. However, it has hitherto proven challenging to…
How You Could Help Scientists Learn More About Exoplanets
Do you have experience with AI? If so, you could help scientists learn more about exoplanets Experts in artificial intelligence (AI) have been challenged to…
Security Tool – Privid – Guarantees Privacy in Surveillance Footage
“Privid” could help officials gather secure public health data or enable transportation departments to monitor the density and flow of pedestrians, without learning personal information…
Molecular Information Storage: Storing Data As Mixtures of Fluorescent Dyes
As the world’s data storage needs grow, new strategies for preserving information over long periods with reduced energy consumption are needed. Now, researchers reporting in ACS…
Data Scientist: Should You Trust the 2020 Election Polls? Yes, but …
Mansueto Institute data scientist Nicholas Marchio breaks down election forecasting. Polling data is an essential factor in every election cycle. Pundits use it to forecast…
Data Civilizer Finds and Links Related Data Scattered Across Digital Files
A new system called Data Civilizer automatically finds connections among many different data tables and allows users to perform database-style queries across all of them….
New Network Design Exploits Power-Efficient Flash Memory
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that, for several common big-data applications, should make servers using flash memory as efficient as those using…
New System Allows Individuals to Pick and Choose What Data to Share
A new prototype system from MIT stores data from your digital devices in a single location that you specify, allowing you to pick and choose…
Researchers Develop Million-Year Data Storage Disk
Using a wafer consisting of tungsten encapsulated by silicon nitride, scientists have developed a disk that can store data for a million years or more….
How Scientists Manage the Flood of “Big Data” from Space
As “big data” from space missions continues to pour in, scientists and software engineers are coming up with new strategies for managing the ever-increasing flow…
DNA Storage Record Broken: 1 Gram Could Hold As Much as 455 Exabytes
Researchers have been able to encode a draft of an entire book into DNA. The 5.27 MB file contains 53,246 words, 11 JPG images, as…
Calculating the Total Capacity of a Data Network
In a two-part paper, a team of scientists from MIT, Caltech, and University of Technology in Munich examined network coding and ways to both minimize…
New System Simplifies Excel Programming
Customizing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel is continuing to get easier and more efficient. Developed by an MIT graduate student and Microsoft researcher, a new system…
Transparent Memory Chips – The Next Step in Memory Storage
As technology moves forward, things get smaller, faster, and now possibly transparent. A team of scientists has developed transparent, flexible memory chips that may one…
Electronic Contact Lenses Put Data on Your Eye
We’ve seen it thousands of times in movies; massive amounts of information unspooling right before someone’s eyes, without the need for any type of monitor….
