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40 years after the first landing on Mars, this NASA scientist looks to resurrect Viking 1’s analog data

It's been four decades since the Viking 1 lander touched down on Martian soil, the first lasting human presence on the surface of the Red Planet. It beamed its unprecedented data back to NASA, where i

Hollywood to go bankrupt archiving films digitally

Throughout the last century, the dominant method of film preservation was sticking the master reels into a temperature and humidity-controlled vault deep in the desert. This method ends up costing abo

Panasonic Steps It Up To 4x Burning Speed For BD-Rs

In this next-gen format war, it seemed whoever had the biggest disc ended up becoming the winner. While this fraternity-esque attitude is childish, it certainly benefits the consumer with inexpensive