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materialsscienceandengineering: Eternal 5D data storage could...

materialsscienceandengineering:

Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind

Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.

The technology was first experimentally demonstrated in 2013 when a 300 kb digital copy of a text file was successfully recorded in 5D.

Now, major documents from human history such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton’s Opticks, Magna Carta and Kings James Bible, have been saved as digital copies that could survive the human race. A copy of the UDHR encoded to 5D data storage was recently presented to UNESCO by the ORC at the International Year of Light (IYL) closing ceremony in Mexico.

Read more.

Record our history…

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itsfullofstars: NASA’s New Horizons sent back the best photos...

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NASA’s New Horizons sent back the best photos of Pluto ever.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades.

Each week the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft transmits data stored on its digital recorders from its flight through the Pluto system on July 14. These latest pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features less than half the size of a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface.  In these new images, New Horizons captured a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains.

Now what are we going to do with this data?

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npr: Sure, our smartphones know a lot about who we are.If you...

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Sure, our smartphones know a lot about who we are.

If you have an Android smartphone, you may not know that Google saves all of the voice commands you give it. They’re archived online in your Google account.

Google says it keeps the audio search information to improve its voice recognition. Android users can opt out, which keeps your recordings anonymous. (Apple also stores voice commands collected by Siri users, though they’re not so obviously associated to users.)

You can find your audio commands — as well as other histories, like all of the YouTube videos you’ve searched for and watched — by visiting your Google history page. You can disable this storage feature by managing your activity.

Otherwise, you can look through and listen to your Google voice searches — all those times you said “OK Google” and asked for directions, set alarms, dictated texts and searched for answers to the many questions that pop in your head throughout the day.

OK Google: Where Do You Store Recordings Of My Commands?

Photo: Ariel Zambelich/NPR

It’s disgusting how much of your data Google collects, saves, profiles, and sells to advertisers. Facebook does this too. And now snapchat is jumping on board.

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techcrunch: Facebook Messenger wants to BE your phone number...

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Facebook Messenger wants to BE your phone number with the new Message requests. 

Facebook Messenger is killing off the dysfunctional “Other Inbox.” It was where Facebook messages went to die if they were sent by someone who wasn’t your friend or friend-of-a-friend. Few people knew it existed. Fewer ever checked it. 

Now, any message from a non-friend who doesn’t have your phone number will go into your Message Requests at the top of Messenger on mobile or in the Messages tab on web. Essentially, Message Requests are like Friend Requests for chat.

Interesting. Kind of what Hangouts and Skype should be. Too bad it’s from Facebook.

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The Personal Assistant That Will Help Facebook Eat The Internet - BuzzFeed News

The Personal Assistant That Will Help Facebook Eat The Internet - BuzzFeed News:

nerdology:

This is incredible. I’m baffled. This puts Siri, Cortana, and Google Now to shame.

And just consider how badly this abuses your data for Facebook’s monetary benefit.

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iheartapple2: Apple announces Q4 2015 revenue of $51.5billion :...

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Apple announces Q4 2015 revenue of $51.5billion : 48m iPhones, 9.8m iPads, and 5.7m Macs. Miss the earnings call? Listen here.

TL;DR Apple made hella, iPhone is huge, Mac is growing, iPad is still a better business alone than basically any Windows OEM, and 30% of iPhone buyers last quarter were Android switchers. Huge.

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techcrunch: According to a new study from Adobe, 42% of...

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According to a new study from Adobe, 42% of Americans use their time there to check their email in the bathroom.

91% of respondents said they check email at work and 87% check their work email at home and 70% check their email while watching TV. About half the respondents said they check their email in bed and while on vacation and — somewhat worryingly — 18% check their email while driving. 

Email will remain a valuable marketing channel for the time being. If anything, is not nearly as dead as many of us would like it to be.

Read more about these email facts here. 

But we really need to kill email…

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Rejoice: Google Just Created a Stupidly Simple Wi-Fi Router

Rejoice: Google Just Created a Stupidly Simple Wi-Fi Router:

appleafterstevejobs:

Wait, what? A router able to share data with Google, made by Google? Who on earth would want that, beside Google?

Yeah, so actually, this is a terrible idea. Please don’t buy this router.

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How many O's does it take to celebrate a goal?

Facebook compiled data of the average number of “o’s” used to spell “goal” while celebrating scores on the site during World Cup 2014 so far. This is the breakdown by country.

I thought this was incredibly interesting, but then again, I have a bit of a compulsion for proper spelling, football (soccer) is important to me, and I love data. So.

Source: Reddit