A 3-D animation shows how DNA molecules can be used in computational devices. (Credit: Microsoft Research) Data storage is getting better and better, but the final frontier for the long-term ...

If you’ve ever been to a capture the flag hacking competition (CTF), you’ve probably seen some steganography challenges. Steganography is the art of concealing data in plain sight. Tools including ...

The Data Science Lab Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program and screenshots to explain how to programmatically encode categorical ...

First the apocalyptic warning: We’re running out of data storage. Chances are that this isn’t something you’ve had to worry about too much in recent years. There was a time, not all that long ago, ...

Researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center have devised a new coding system, dubbed DNA Fountain, which is capable of stuffing 215 petabytes of data onto one gram of DNA. That ...