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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Project Silica has achieved a breakthrough in data preservation by developing a higher-density glass storage system capable of archiving digital data for thousands of years without ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

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 ...

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.