“Every day, several petabytes of data are generated on the internet,” says Kasra Tabatabaei, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. “Only one gram of DNA would be sufficient to store that data.” So the Institute is now announcing the results of a project Tabatabaei worked Read more…
“The events of recent days have taken us away from the stable and predictable development of mankind,” argue two Moscow-based technology professors in Communications of the ACM, citing anticipated shortages of high-performance processors. But fortunately, they have a partial workarond… One of the professors — Andrei Sukhov of HSE University Read more…
Cogent Communications, one of the world’s largest internet intercontinental backbone providers, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine. In a letter to Russian customers obtained by The Washington Post, Cogent cited “economic sanctions” and “the increasingly uncertain security situation” as the motives behind its total shutdown Read more…
“Fitbit has announced a voluntary recall of its Ionic Smartwatch,” reports Newsweek, “amid more than 170 reports that the battery has overheated, causing more than 100 reports of burn injuries….” The Ionic smartwatch was first introduced in 2017 and the company stopped producing it in 2020. When worn, the smartwatch Read more…
Thursday the Washington Post reported the Ukrainian government had already received more than $42 million in cryptocurrency donations since last Saturday — “plus digital artwork including a limited edition worth roughly $200,000,” according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Some of the crypto donations have already been converted into traditional currency, Read more…
Nearly a year ago, Electrek reported that scientists published a feasibility study about the benefits of erecting solar panels over canals. That study is about to become a reality in a [one-mile] pilot project in California. The California Department of Water Resources, utility company Turlock Irrigation District, Marin County, California-based Read more…
A new finding suggests Samsung is throttling the performance of thousands of Android apps on Galaxy smartphones, including Google and Samsung’s first-party apps. Samsung has an app called Game Optimization Service that comes preinstalled on many Galaxy phones. Although the name suggests the app helps improve gaming performance, it’s apparently Read more…