overheard in providence

Ah to travel from the smallest state to the biggest state and back again. Actually I’m well aware that Alaska, not Texas, is the biggest state, and also I’m not back in Rhode Island yet, but hey, that’s my lead, live with it. I’ll really be back in Providence on thursday, although then it’s off [...]

It’s a few days old, but I just saw this Engadget post pointing me to a nanotechnology-related Wired article. The article highlights some recent work of Professor Michael Kozicki, demonstrating a new method for storing data using nanoscale copper wires.
Today’s technology takes about 10,000 square nanometers to store a bit of data on a chip [...]