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| A conventional hard drive uses 125 million atoms to store a bit. The smallest magnetic data storage device in the world needs only 12. Inte...

| A new method of storing data lengthens the life-span of data carriers to thousands of years. Researchers at Southampton University were abl...

| In spite of the slow but steady inroads being made by DVD, the CD-ROM is by far the most popular computer data storage medium. Due to the...

| In this series we look closely at digital electronics, what it is, what it does, how it works, and its pro mise for the future.