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 ...

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 ...

How genetic genealogy might help investigators in the Nancy Guthrie case

DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...

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 ...