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TL;DR: Microsoft is developing ultra-durable data storage using borosilicate glass and femtosecond lasers, enabling 4.8TB capacity on a small, heat- and damage-resistant medium. This archival ...

Walmart Data Ventures, the retailer’s business data applications arm, introduced Scintilla In-Store, a tool that provides store-level data to assist supplier field representatives, the retailer ...

A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades. This piece of glass has a copy of Microsoft flight simulator map data written into it using ...

PCWorld examines Microsoft’s Project Silica breakthrough, which now uses common borosilicate glass like Pyrex for ultra-long-term data storage lasting over 10,000 years. This technology addresses ...

An automated system for storing large amounts of information in glass could change the future of data centres. Our world runs on data, from the internet and readouts of countless industrial sensors to ...