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

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

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic ...

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

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 ...

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

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Engineered DNA can store massive amounts of data while also encrypting it, opening the door to ultra-secure, long-term digital storage.