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

Researchers at Microsoft claim to have made significant progress on Project Silica, an archival data storage system of laser-inscribed glass that can live up to 10,000 years. According to the ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...