The breakthrough comes from Microsoft researchers and could enable the preservation of terabytes of data for a very long time ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, ...

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers ...

Project Silica promises to store data for millennia while facing impossible speeds and impractical costs for real use ...

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer ...

Improvements to the data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before.

A Microsoft Research study suggests glass blocks etched with lasers could provide enduring data archives ...

Microsoft has been developing Project Silica for years, transforming glass into permanent storage media capable of retaining digital data for up to 10,000 years. The company ...

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according ...