A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

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Data centers have been on the receiving end of increasing public scrutiny, with moratoriums and local protests calling attention to water shortages, higher electricity prices, and deteriorating air ...

Apple has revamped its App Store Connect service for developers, allowing for over 100 new metrics to help track in-app purchase trends and more. App Store Connect was launched in 2018 as an ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Walmart Data Ventures, the retailer’s business data applications arm, introduced Scintilla In-Store, a tool that provides store-level data to assist supplier field representatives, the retailer ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Apple often promotes the App Store as a secure place to download apps. The company highlights strict reviews and a closed system as key protections for iPhone users. That reputation now faces serious ...