A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and unlike, for example, a magnetic tape, ...

Project Silica is Microsoft's attempt at turning glass, not microchips, into a feasible medium for data storage with the use ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

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

This initiative, known as Project Silica, encodes data on glass plates reminiscent of early photography negatives. In a study ...

Humans are generating more data than ever before. While much of these data do not need to be stored long-term, some – such as ...

The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia. However, information written into glass by lasers ...

Researchers found that understanding the stability of the rings of atoms in glass materials can help them predict the performance of glass products. This capability is important because the most ...

A Microsoft-backed research team has published a peer-reviewed study describing an archival storage system that writes data into ordinary glass using ultrafast lasers, fitting 4.8 terabytes onto a ...