Saturday, May 11, 2024

Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers

Wow:

We did the back-of-napkin math on what ramping up this experiment to the entire brain would cost, and the scale is impossibly large — 1.6 zettabytes of storage costing $50 billion and spanning 140 acres, making it the largest data center on the planet.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/full-scan-of-1-cubic-millimeter-of-brain-tissue-took-14-petabytes-of-data-equivalent-to-14000-full-length-4k-movies

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Scientists Develop Breakthrough Nasal Spray That Could Delay Alzheimer’s by Over a Decade

A decade! https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-breakthrough-nasal-spray-that-could-delay-alzheimers-by-over-a-decade/