The boffins at Redmond have been exploring this concept as part of Project Silica since 2019, using femtosecond lasers to encode data as voxels (3D pixels) inside glass.

For the demonstration in the paper, the team inscribed 301 voxel layers, but the glass chip has the capacity to store 4.8 terabytes of data—equivalent to about 2 million printed books or 5,000 ...

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic ...

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

With AI spending forecast to reach $2.52 trillion in 2026, Gartner recommends focusing on building capacity, creating partnerships and avoiding random exploration.

While Microsoft Azure makes up ‘the bulk’ of Unilever’s underlying infrastructure, Google claims it is providing the ‘backbone’ as hyperscalers work with the all-cloud multinational on its agentic AI ...

It's one of the latest technologies for sequestering carbon: crush silicate rocks, add to crop soil, and let the rock dust ...

Microsoft and international neocloud provider, G42 set to expand the UAE’s digital infrastructure with a 200-megawatt (MW) increase in datacenter capacity As part of Microsoft’s $15.2 billion ...

Mississippi State University's Startup Expedition at mCITY guides participants through a multi-phase workshop from idea pitches to a statewide business pitch competition in April.

MDA head Bill Cork said this week that while 2025 was the agency’s most successful year, 2026 will exceed that mark.

Microsoft patches 58 vulnerabilities, including six actively exploited zero-days across Windows, Office, and RDP, as CISA sets a March 3 deadline.