For the demonstration in the paper, the team inscribed 301 voxel layers, but the glass chip has the capacity to store 4.8 terabytes of data—equivalent to about 2 million printed books or 5,000 ...

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

It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper Microsoft this week detailed new research aimed at preserving data in borosilicate glass plates for thousands of ...

Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of ...

Microsoft has advanced its Project Silica to the point where it can store data for up to 10,000 years on the type of commercial borosilicate glass used in cookware and in oven doors.

Improvements to the data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more ...

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

Researchers at Microsoft have found a way to store terabytes of data on a tiny square of glass, preserving it for generations to come. This technology would make it infinitely easier to leave treasure ...

Researchers say a palm-sized piece of glass could store the equivalent of 2 million books for over 10,000 years.

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let ...

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but storage developed by Microsoft could last for millennia ...

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