It’s important to know the difference between megabits and megabytes, primarily when you’re discussing internet speeds. It’s standard to use megabits per second, but you could hear someone refer to ...

When Computerworld was founded in 1967, a 1-megabyte hard drive would have set you back by $1 million. Today, that same megabyte of capacity on a hard disk drive (HDD) costs about two cents. Through ...

Signal, creator of one of the best encrypted messaging apps, will offer 100MB of cloud storage for all users to store and ...

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 ...

Cloud servers are able to keep a full record of our lives, storing literally everything from personal photos and videos from our smartphones to work documents. At first glance, this solution makes our ...

DNA may enable computation in storage on massive data sets.

A GAO report predicts that the government will run out of storage for its increasing data collection unless new methods are perfected. The size of the datasphere has exploded. In 2020, the world ...

In 2016, when Microsoft set a record by storing 200 megabytes of data in nucleotide strands, the company used 13,448,372 unique pieces of DNA.