Microsoft working on DNA-based data storage

Quantum computing is not the only large leap in computing the human race is currently working on, there's also the crazy and amazing research in storing data in DNA. According to media reports, Microsoft is now planning on building, "an operational storage system based on DNA working inside a data center," by the next decade. The DNA storage machine, or whatever it will be, should be the size of a large, 1970s-era Xerox copier, but could fit every movie ever recorded inside a volume smaller than a sugar cube. The problem, as it usually is with new technology, is that… [Continue Reading]