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 ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

You’ve likely already felt the digital sting of “surveillance pricing.” It might look like an airline advertising a specific fare bundle because a customer’s loyalty-program data suggests they’re ...

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 ...

States are looking at how grocery stores, hotel chains, and retailers are using personal consumer information—from browsing history to location data—to dictate prices. In a first-of-its-kind use of a ...

A new data structure and compression technique developed by engineers at UC San Diego enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information. Illustration by Alice ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...

Wi-Fi is something we all need, but it feels like access to it gets harder to afford every year. Whether you’re locked into a specific Internet carrier or plan that keeps changing, it’s expensive.

A PNW data center just bagged its first battery energy storage system (BESS). Why opt for storage? They were tired of waiting in line. Calibrant Energy and Aligned Data Centers announced the ...