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May’s local primary races are set, and there’s only one contested race.

Former Indiana Pacers great Reggie Miller on Wednesday made his way back to Indiana to share a different athletic passion, bicycling.

A man has been arrested after making a bomb threat that caused the Walmart on Highway 85/87 in Fountain to be evacuated.

Fountain police on Wednesday arrested a man after receiving reports of a bomb threat outside a Walmart, according to a news release from the department.

Read later Summary: Tape storage could have an interesting new future - and if it does you can blame the growing calls for the ‘democratisation of data’, where anyone and everyone gets involved in analysing data in a million different ways (Pixabay) One of the themes of 2020 concerned the ‘democratisation of data’, its growing importance and the changes it might bring to how data is stored and accessed. The key factor here is that with the continued advances in analytics tools, couple...

A new world record for one of the oldest types of storage media on December 18, 2020, 8:33 23 comments Why it matters: Magnetic tapes continue to be a formidable storage solution for data archival and backup, enabling organizations and large-scale businesses to hold onto vast amounts of data for decades. Its why this antiquated technology is still of interest to companies like IBM and Fujifilm, whove jointly developed a new type of magnetic tape that allows ...

(Photo: Fujifilm) According to IBM, by the time we reach 2025 the world will be creating 175 zettabytes of data. Thats 175 trillion gigabytes, and we need a cost-effective way of storing it all. The solution? A new prototype magnetic tape that breaks the recording density world record. Mark Lantz, Manager of Advanced Tape Technologies at IBM Research, explains how researchers at IBM and Fujifilm brought together more than 15 years of work to set a new world record in tape storage. What they ach...

T HE WHIRR of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe. Yet tape remains important for data storage, with millions of kilometres of the stuff coiled up in the world’s data centres. Indirectly, says Mark Lantz of IBM, most computer users thus rely on tape every day. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Though tape may seem archaic, it is still getting better. In 2015 Dr Lantz’s team unveiled a version capable o...