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Milestone moon lander mission targets an otherworldly frontier for DNA data storage

GeekWire

(Astrobotic Photo) A mission to send a commercial lander to the moon , set for launch in a couple of days, will bring the fruition of projects that have been in the works for years — including projects that aim to put DNA into cold storage on the final frontier. “Off-planet DNA storage is a real thing,” Chafer said.

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Film maker shuns cloud storage for Spectra Logic tape

Computer Weekly

Smoke & Mirrors replaces Quantum tape library with 7PB of Spectra Logic tape and decides the cloud lacks security and would be too costly for the 16TB it archives every day

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Digital Cameras vs Film Cameras

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Digital Cameras vs Film Cameras - Information Technology Blog. However, even in this day and age some photographers are still hanging on to traditional film cameras. Modern digital cameras can display images at very high resolutions and are capable of surpassing the output of the best film cameras.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Amazon closes $8.5B MGM deal, its second-largest acquisition ever

GeekWire

MGM will provide Amazon with more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows that have collectively won more than 180 Academy Awards and 100 Emmys. Amazon is already an active player in film and television with content it creates and acquires through Amazon Studios and that it broadcasts through its streaming service, Prime Video.

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DCK Video: Hyve Partners DDN and Nebula

Data Center Knowledge

Conor Malone, vice president of engineering at Hyve, shows us what Data Direct Networks, a storage company, and Nebula, an open source cloud initiative, are doing with Hyve chassis and servers in this video filmed at the Open Compute Summit V. Cloud Computing Data Center Videos Open Compute'

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Canon's New iOS App Uses AI To Marie Kondo Your Digital Photo Hoarding

Gizmodo

Even without the limits of a 36-shot roll of film or memory cards that quickly max out, it doesn’t take long to fill an iPhone and cloud storage with photos. So Canon has released an iOS app that can make the hard decisions for you when it’s time to clear out some memories using AI to objectively decide which shots… Read more.

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