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 ...

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 ...

The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That's largely because it's extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, ...