Project Silica breakthrough lets Microsoft store digital data in glass for 10,000 years

Microsoft has been developing Project Silica for years, transforming glass into permanent storage media capable of retaining digital data for up to 10,000 years. The company ...
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RAM Reality Check: How Much Memory Do You Really Need in Your Next PC?

The AI gold rush has sent demand—and prices—for computer memory shooting skyward. Here’s how to size your PC’s RAM the smart way for real-world use, whether you're scoping out a new system or just ...

Microsoft develops storage that lets you backup data that lasts 10,000 years

Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s built for archives, but scaling write speed and reader access remain big ...
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End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information ...
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Laser-etched glass can store data for 10,000 years, Microsoft says

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer ...

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 ...