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Researchers at Hong Kong's Chinese University have found what might be the safest way to store data: not in a safe, not in the cloud, but in bacteria . Biostorage, the term for storing and encrypting information in organisms, has only existed for close to a decade, but scientists say the method could soon allow for text, images, music, or even video to be "recorded" in E. Coli, according to Discovery . By encoding data in bacterial DNA, the information has a virtually limitless lifespan. As each bacteria reproduces, the data could be copied thousands of times. By mapping E. Coli's DNA, that data can be easily found and isolated. Perhaps more importantly however, bacteria isn't susceptible to intrusion. "Bacteria can't be hacked," Allen Yu, a student instructor, told Discovery . "All kinds of computers are vulnerable to electrical failures or data theft. But bacteria are immune from cyber attacks. You can safeguard the i...

Tech giant Samsung is looking to ditch not only the keyboard but the touch screen in favor of mind control. The technology, which Samsung stresses is in its infancy, would allow users to control a computing device with their thoughts alone. A project at the company's Emerging Technology Lab in partnership with Roozbeh Jafari , an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, the research has already enabled test subjects to launch apps on a tablet, pick a song on a playlist or a contact from an address book and power up or power down the device. However, according to the MIT Technology Review , which first reported on the project, don't expect to see these features rolling out as part of Samsung's 2014 product line-up. In order to control the tablet with their minds alone, users needs to wear a cap full of EEG monitoring electrodes which only work when wet, meaning that a gel needs to be applied to the head. As Jafari says: "Depen...