gigabyte

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• Humans generate millions of gigabytes of data each day, and one promising way to preserve it is to encode it in the nucleotides of DNA.

• The average price per gigabyte in Tunisia though is 65 times that of a gigabyte in Israel.

• It worked 10 years ago, but gigabytes turned into terabytes and now terabytes are turning into petabytes.

• File sizes for larger maps can be more than a gigabyte, so make sure you have enough storage space on your phone.

• The cost of a gigabyte of data across providers plunged to the equivalent of 26 cents, the cheapest in the world.

• Users also require the bandwidth and patience to download large files (Flames of War is nearly a gigabyte).

• Behold, the Gigabyte Age: A gigabyte is the speed at which the human eye processes data to the brain, making life look seamless.