Project Silica promises to store data for millennia while facing impossible speeds and impractical costs for real use ...
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 ...
You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. Could you read a stack of punch cards or a ...
Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These ...
The inaugural Pax Silica Summit convened stakeholders from: Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United ...
For the demonstration in the paper, the team inscribed 301 voxel layers, but the glass chip has the capacity to store 4.8 ...
Microsoft’s Project Silica can store 5TB of data on glass for 10,000 years, offering a durable, energy-free solution to prevent data rot.
Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...
Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information ...
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 ...