archival technology

Microsoft Research’s latest step in Project Silica — published as a full-system demonstration in Nature — is a serious piece of optical-engineering work: researchers have shown repeatable femtosecond-laser writing and machine‑learning decoding that can put terabytes of archived data into a 120...

Microsoft Research's latest paper and demonstrations make a bold promise: a laser-etched glass archival system that can store terabytes of data in a coaster‑sized plate and survive for millennia—potentially 10,000 years or more—without powered maintenance. What was once a laboratory curiosity...