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Our Digital Age Began in 2002

Matt Cantor — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:38:15 CST

Humanity broadcasts a mind-boggling amount of information daily—try 1.9 zettabytes on for size, says a USC study . In other words, each person is hit with 174 newspapers’ worth of information every day, the Daily Mail reports. Meanwhile, computers, libraries, DVD collections, and newspapers can store some 295 exabytes—...

Pogoplug Ideal for Taking Personal Info Out of Cloud

Rob Quinn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:09:39 CST

The Pogoplug device seems like the perfect solution for people who want to access and share their files over the Internet but are wary of storing their personal data "in the cloud," writes Katherine Boehret. The $129 device allows users to access hard drives or other devices connected to its...

Docs Foresee Trouble With Digitizing Records

Clay Dillow — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:27:26 CDT

The administration's push to digitize health records is raising red flags with an important constituency: doctors. "We have a long way to go," said the lead author of a report out today that shows only 9% of hospitals have computerized records. His article is part of a 1-2 punch in...

Files May Be Fleeting

Katherine Thompson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:29:26 CDT

Cuneiform tablets have kept information safe across millenia, but hard drives have lifespans of just a few years. Even if your CDs survive the century, their players might have become obsolete, warns the Boston Globe . "Who knows how long they're going to last—how much time before the information on...

Nanochip Offers 5X the Memory of Flash Drives

Lucas Laursen — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:54:14 CST

A Silicon Valley company called Nanochip has a chip under development that can store over five times the amount of data as current flash drives, reports Tech Review. The Nanochip technology stores memory by using tiny pins with microscopically sharp tips to polarize a film; it is cheaper to produce...