A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...

The breakthrough comes from Microsoft researchers and could enable the preservation of terabytes of data for a very long time ...

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

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

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

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth ...

You can't scroll through a financial news feed today without seeing a headline about a major market segment, be it tech or industrials, getting completely reshaped by artificial intelligence. If ...

Improvements to the data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before.