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

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These ...

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...

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.

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading ...

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

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...

Marketing used to rely a lot more on gut feeling. Creative directors would dream up campaigns over long lunches, and my team and I would blast messages to anyone who'd listen. We called it ...

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines ...

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...