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Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs. In ...

Data mining is the process of extracting potentially useful information from data sets. It uses a suite of methods to organise, examine and combine large data sets, including machine learning, ...