July 15

Technology that suffers the wrath of a catastrophic event like a wildfire is not a pretty sight. Here are some archive photos from the initial findings after wildfires ripped through the community of Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2016 with some pieces that eventually made their way to our labs for recovery assessment.

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CBL Pictures: When Fire Damage Makes Hard Drive Recovery Harder

July 03

A promotional film that IBM made in the 1950s looks at the creation of the first hard disk drive and is a retro video throwback to tech innovation and marketing of the time reminding us how far we’ve come and of artifacts from our own data recovery archives.

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Throwback: Creating the First Hard Disk Drive at IBM
May the 4th Be With You

4 May 2023

May the 4th Be With You

A New Hope for Your Lost Data

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Machine Learning Makes Massive Black Hole Data Darker

3 May 2023

Machine Learning Makes Massive Black Hole Data Darker

The first-ever image of a black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope team in 2019. It required a lot of observation data and processing. Researchers have now produced a finer image using even more data from a new source: models generated using machine-learning.

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Beyond Bytes: Updated Unit Names Needed for Massive Digital Data

30 November 2022

Beyond Bytes: Updated Unit Names Needed for Massive Digital Data

Gigabytes…Terabytes…Petabytes…Zettabytes… Naming units of computer memory follows a standard system of prefixes but after a certain range gets a bit informal. The common and even very large volumes we see in our digital landscape were covered for years. Until now. For the first time in 31 years the International System of Units (SI) has been expanded to include two more prefixes.

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CBL Pictures: Computer Paper

17 November 2022

CBL Pictures: Computer Paper

A throwback to the late 90s when CBL had ads running in a popular national print magazine about tech “The Computer Paper”.

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Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

7 October 2022

Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

A recent Financial Times longread delves into datacenter storage use, e-waste, data security and Big Tech’s reuse practices (or lack thereof). We share a related tech tip for the rest of us.

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