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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 | Tom's Hardware

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(Image credit: Benn Jordan ) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 17 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter 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-ba

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