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Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Biological imaging is one of the most innovative fields in the modern biological sciences. New imaging modalities, probes and analysis tools appear every few months and often prove decisive for ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

At WWDC, Apple and Pixar have jointly introduced a new file format for augmented reality applications. At the 2018 WWDC in San Jose, Apple announced USDZ, a new file format for storing and ...

I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I'm working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn't immediately ...