Researchers Store Full Computer Operating System on DNA
Thrid Party Content By PC Mag ME Team March 5, 2017, 6 p.m. Researchers encoded six files into DNA: a full computer OS, a movie, a $50 Amazon gift card, a computer virus, a Pioneer plaque, and a 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shannon. Proving that everything old is new again, researchers are now storing data on the oldest information storage solution there is: DNA. A pair of researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have come up with a technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA. The result, according to study coauthor is the "highest-density data-storage device ever created." The researchers say DNA is the perfect storage medium: it's ultra-compact and can last hundreds of thousands of years if kept cool and dry, according to a news release from Columbia. "DNA won't degrade over time like cassette tapes and...