Synthetic DNA used as data storage shouldn’t terrify earth’s current inhabitants yet

It may be too early to start firing up your DNA thumb drive, but that’s not out of the question in the near future. A British scientist has imprinted 739kb of data onto a strand of synthetic DNA that includes 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, a photo, a PDF of a scientific paper, and a 26-second… Continue reading Synthetic DNA used as data storage shouldn’t terrify earth’s current inhabitants yet

DDoS takes down UK’s Russian embassy website before PM visit to Moscow

It has been 5 years since a British leader has visited Moscow. On the eve of the first visit since a Kremlin critic was killed in London, the website for the Russian Embassy in London was attacked by a distributed denial of service attack. British Prime Minister David Cameron has been very vocal in the… Continue reading DDoS takes down UK’s Russian embassy website before PM visit to Moscow