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

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, ...

CT3 today released first-month operating results for CT3 Secure Storage, confirming strong early demand for secure storage ...

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

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

Encoding data into glass through laser could be a promising avenue for holding huge quantities of data for more than 10,000 years, as the technique is resistant to moisture, temperature changes and ...

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.

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth ...

In the face of rising emissions from data centres, researchers are turning to micro-explosions in glass, and using DNA to solve big data's big problem.

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 ...

Boffins at the software king of the world, Microsoft, have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a piece of glass which they say can store data for more than 10,000 years. In Nature on 18 February ...