10 May 2023
Businesses are increasingly feeling hard done by when it comes to artificial intelligence exploiting their data. It is time we figured out who is going to foot the bill
20 October 2022
Splitting data into a spectrum of colour packets has enabled a single computer chip to transmit a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable
26 August 2022
A start-up has developed data centre pods that can be submerged in the ocean to let the water naturally keep them cool. Cooling is normally very energy-intensive
10 August 2022
Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world. Plans for more data centres are now pitting preservationists and big technology companies against each other
20 July 2022
Ink laced with molecules that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden, encoded message – the encryption key to unlock a text file of the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
26 April 2022
Many homes in the UK rely on repurposed phone lines for internet access, leading to slow download speeds, but there may be a solution
18 March 2022
In an analysis of nearly 30,000 websites, 94.7 per cent had at least one potential violation of European laws requiring users' consent to store their data
28 December 2021
Governments are drafting new laws to protect your privacy online, but are people even that bothered about companies using their data?
28 October 2021
An advanced version of the technology used to create DVDs and Blu-rays can store far more data, though it takes a while
2 September 2021
The physicists at CERN still rely on tape for the long-term storage of data from the LHC, because it is more reliable and cheaper than hard discs or flash storage
