Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Glass has a very, very long lifetime,” said Microsoft Research principal researcher Ant Rowstron in a recent conversation with ...

Discover Microsoft's revolutionary glass data storage technology, designed to preserve digital information for up to 10,000 ...

Microsoft and Warner Bros. have teamed up with a proof of concept test for a new long-term storage technology. As part of Microsoft’s Project Silica, the two companies managed to cram the 1978 movie ...

The last time we talked about Microsoft's Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros' Superman movie on a tiny ...

Recap: It's been nearly four years since we first heard about Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project tasked with storing digital data on sheets of glass. At the time, Microsoft was able to ...

As data storage becomes ever cheaper, many of us have accumulated gigabytes (or even terabytes) of it that must be kept safe. Whether you're storing your data locally or in the cloud, the storage ...

Microsoft’s Project Silica has delivered proof of concept for its quartz glass storage theories, after teaming up with Warner Bros. to inscribe the classic 1978 Christopher Reeve Superman film onto a ...

Storing up to 7TB of data on something the size of a DVD might not sound all that groundbreaking in a time where SSD storage with that sort of capacity is notably smaller in physical stature.