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Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s(www.tomshardware.com)

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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.

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Avicenna@lemmy.world
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Can you run Doom on it tho?

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PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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You’d have to zip six birds together to get Plutonia on it.

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cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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Asking the REAL question

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Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” just got a whole lot worse.

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squaresinger@lemmy.world
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Can you store “The Birds” on the birds?

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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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I love Hitchcock, but The Birds is his worst movie.

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cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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Haha, made you say cock

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