{"id":88870,"date":"2019-03-21T23:43:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data"},"modified":"2019-03-21T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:43:06","slug":"microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft just booted up the first \u201cDNA drive\u201d for storing data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DNA storage:<\/strong> Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/607880\/microsoft-has-a-plan-to-add-dna-data-storage-to-its-cloud\/\">replace data centers<\/a> by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA strands, which can pack in information at mind-boggling density.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, all the information stored in a warehouse-size data center would fit into a set of Yahztee dice, were it written in DNA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/613158\/microsoft-just-booted-up-the-first-dna-drive-for-storing-data\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/613158\/microso...ring-data\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again. DNA storage: Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would replace data centers by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA strands, which can pack in information at mind-boggling density. According to Microsoft, all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}