Microsoft's latest glass storage breakthrough promises to hold data for 10,000 years — but will Project Silica shatter under the pressure?

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

Oven Storage Drawer: 8 Items You Can Safely Store

Ovens generally have a bottom drawer that may serve one of two purposes. If it is a storage drawer, there are items you can ...

I Haven't Touched My Plastic Containers in Months, Thanks to These Glass Anyday Dishes That Double as Cookware

These glass Anyday dishes made me ditch plastic food storage containers for good. You can cook, serve, and store food in ...

Keep Your Avocado Fresh for a Week With These Pyrex Freshlock Containers That Are Leakproof and Airtight

The Pyrex Freshlock glass food storage container set is a non-toxic, airtight, and leakproof way to keep your food fresh for longer. Shoppers say the containers are the perfect size for meal prepping ...

Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years

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.

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After weeks of rigorous hands-on testing, I found three meal-prep containers that will keep your food fresh without pesky leaks.
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End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years

Microsoft’s Project Silica uses ultrafast lasers to store 4.84TB of data in small glass plates, preserving digital history for up to 10,000 years.

Microsoft says its glass-based storage project now works with 'the same material found in kitchen cookware and oven doors' and can hold data for 10,000 years

Long-term data storage is a tricky one. As I look at my personal hard drives, full of photos, screenshots, and ancient drafts ...

Need a kitchen revamp? Start with Amazon’s ‘most wished for’ list

Luckily, there’s a way to find kitchen bestsellers quickly and easily: Amazon’s “most wished for” list. This is like a crowdsourced list of the top kitchen gadgets, organizers and more. When this many ...

Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years

The boffins at Redmond have been exploring this concept as part of Project Silica since 2019, using femtosecond lasers to encode data as voxels (3D pixels) inside glass.