Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

PCWorld examines Microsoft’s Project Silica breakthrough, which now uses common borosilicate glass like Pyrex for ultra-long-term data storage lasting over 10,000 years. This technology addresses ...

Big data is becoming a big problem. In the face of rising emissions from data centres, researchers are turning to novel solutions for storage. Memory crystals and DNA are two frontrunners. On a visit ...

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 ...

While training for the Paralympics, self-proclaimed data nerd Samantha Bosco wore a sleep tracker, logged her macronutrients and meticulously analyzed her performance data. Already a champion cyclist ...

New York City shoppers lined up in Greenwich Village on Thursday for the grand opening of The Polymarket, a free grocery store. The market — perhaps a nod to New York mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposed ...

Writing a full 4.8TB glass disc takes more than 18 days — far too slow for daily operations Cheaper borosilicate glass reduces costs but cannot fix practical limitations Microsoft’s statement signals ...

A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades. This piece of glass has a copy of Microsoft flight simulator map data written into it using ...

Breakthrough improvements to Microsoft's glass-based data-storage technology mean ordinary glassware, such as that used in cookware and oven doors, can store terabytes of data, with the information ...