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

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

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

Microsoft has advanced its Project Silica to the point where it can store data for up to 10,000 years on the type of ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, ...

Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These ...

For the demonstration in the paper, the team inscribed 301 voxel layers, but the glass chip has the capacity to store 4.8 ...

Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s built for archives, but scaling write speed and reader access remain big ...

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

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Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according ...

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