According to TechCrunch, start-up Harbr is set to launch a secure big data exchange platform. 

Organizations today are sitting on mountains of data that they amass and use in their own businesses, but many are also looking to share those troves with other parties to expand their prospects — a model that comes with challenges (privacy and data protection being two key ones); and, these days (due to COVID-19 and the push to more digital transformation), with urgency; but also big rewards if you can pull it off well.

Big data predicted the election outcome before election day, reports the Hill

At every moment of our lives, we are contributing to a never-ending trail of data, our digital footprint.

Microsoft, along with several other companies, is exploring using DNA for data storage, reports Fierce Biotech.

Genetic code has served as the basis of the human story for millenia. Now, a group of tech and medtech companies aim to spin digital data into DNA itself, to archive information in the arrangement of its molecules.