Researchers say the new method, using ultra-fast lasers, could end data rot and the need for constant storage upgrades.

To store information, the laser cuts voxels inside the glass. A voxel is like a pixel, but it stores information in three dimensions, like a cube, instead of in two dimensions. The video game ...

In a new study, scientists at Microsoft Research have shown that they can write information into a lump of borosilicate glass. Their calculations suggest the data trapped inside would be stable for at ...

Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s ...

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

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.

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

The technology can store massive amounts of data without degradation for 10,000 years.

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

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

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 ...