All Argo data are freely and publically available in near real-time via the Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs) in Brest, France and Monterey, California.

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If this bit of data point assembly is correct and Apple unveils something like this on Wednesday, it would likely call into question the near term viability of NFC powered mobile payments that require POS upgrades.

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The NFI scheme brings together bodies such as councils, the emergency services, health trusts and the Welsh Assembly Government to compare data held on claims for benefits, rent, pension payments, student awards and death records.

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The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.

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Disrupting information flows not only violates the integrity of the data but quashes free expression and denies the right of assembly.

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According to the Konza information website, the city wants to attract business process outsourcing, software development, data centres, disaster recovery centres, call centres and light assembly manufacturing industries.

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Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.

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