Push two magnets together and you’ll set off an avalanche of activity, forcing atoms on each magnet to align their polarity with the intruding magnetic field. It may sound like a party trick for ...
Magnets tuned with lasers at room temperature could lead to faster hard drives and a new generation of computer chips.
The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...
The pbm2track tool repurposes a floppy disk's track timing diagram into a secret tool for hiding pixel images.
A seminar on perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) held by the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) in Santa Clara last week laid out a roadmap for the evolution of ...
When IBM sold its hard-drive business to Hitachi in April 2002, IBM fellow Stuart Parkin wondered what to do next. He had spent his career studying the fundamental physics of magnetic materials, ...