Sometime in the future, you might be able to carry around hundreds of terabytes of data – enough to hold the entire iTunes music catalogue – on a device the size of credit card, thanks to a new research breakthrough from IBM's Almaden research lab in San Jose, California.
IBM researchers have demonstrated the ability to store a bit of data on a single atom, the company announced recently. By contrast, current hard drives require about 100,000 atoms for every bit they store.
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