You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. Could you read a stack of punch cards or a ...

Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will make of Microsoft's Project Silica, a ...

AI is driving up even more demand for storage, including data archives. That could mean Microsoft's upcoming, glass-based Project Silica will have a waiting market for it, but permanent storage still ...

Microsoft's project to store data on quartz glass has progressed in the four years since the company showed off its first proof of concept. In collaboration with Warner Bros., Microsoft stored a ...

Project Silica, Microsoft’s almost decade-long project to encode digital data inside glass, has just achieved a significant breakthrough in terms of the materials used. It’s been a while since we ...

Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment. But thousands of years from now, our descendants may learn of our lives from a thin slice of glass carrying an impressive load of ...

Explore how Microsoft Project Silica glass uses borosilicate glass memory for ultra-durable, 10,000-year data storage and archival glass storage tech that could transform long-term cloud archives.

Computer scientists have been researching new and better ways to store information ever since, well, computers were invented. PC components have come a long way since computers needed hard drives the ...