Microsoft’s Project Silica can store 5TB of data on glass for 10,000 years, offering a durable, energy-free solution to prevent data rot.

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

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

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

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information ...

Microsoft has advanced its Project Silica to the point where it can store data for up to 10,000 years on the type of ...

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

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

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

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading ...