A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers ...

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth ...

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 ...

In a new study, scientists at Microsoft Research have shown that they can write information into a lump of borosilicate glass. Their calculations suggest the data trapped inside would be stable for at ...

Improvements to the data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more ...

Microsoft unveils a laser-modified glass that could store huge amounts of data for millennia — plus, a trial of mRNA vaccines ...