March 27
Spotted in the lab not too long ago we’re still finding innovative data loss solutions for Macs new & old.
Machine Learning Makes Massive Black Hole Data Darker
May 3, 07:41 am
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.
Beyond Bytes: Updated Unit Names Needed for Massive Digital Data
Nov 30, 10:51 am
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.
CBL Pictures: Computer Paper
Nov 17, 01:53 am
A throwback to the late 90s when CBL had ads running in a popular national print magazine about tech “The Computer Paper”.
Data With a Drip
Sep 23, 09:55 am
Spotted in the lab. This one needed a bit of specific pre-recovery work.
CBL Pictures: Too Much
Jul 20, 12:08 pm
A look at a severely fire-damaged server spotted in the lab. Disasters don’t have to mean data loss but fires definitely make recovery much more difficult.
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