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Why Is Microsoft Saving His Photos in Salmon Dna Instead of Hard Drives?

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What if the hard drives in which Microsoft keeps your files today were, in fact, the modern equivalent of stone engraving? The company that built Windows has been exploring an alternative that does not occupy space, does not degrade in decades and fits in the palm of your hand. The data that changes everything: a single gram of synthetic DNA can store up to 215 petabytes of information. To understand this, it is like compressing the content of m…
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What if the hard drives in which Microsoft keeps your files today were, in fact, the modern equivalent of stone engraving? The company that built Windows has been exploring an alternative that does not occupy space, does not degrade in decades and fits in the palm of your hand. The data that changes everything: a single gram of synthetic DNA can store up to 215 petabytes of information. To understand this, it is like compressing the content of m…

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Merca2.es broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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