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 ...

SAN MARCOS — Hays County is joining an increasing push for state lawmakers to give local governments more regulatory authority over industry. The demand came after county commissioners on Tuesday ...

Most developers don’t wake up and say “I choose OpenJDK 11 because it’s my comfort runtime.” Let’s be real. If you’re still on 11 in 2025, it’s usually not because you want to be. It’s because ...

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 ...

Economic development legislation championed by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is poised to dramatically expand the state’s tax breaks for data centers, which are already among the largest in the nation.

Residents of a Central Kentucky county are now among a growing list of those across the Bluegrass State largely opposed to data center development in their communities. A more than 550-acre piece of ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

Microsoft Research has announced Project Silica, a method to read/write data into small slabs of glass. The glass offers extreme stability, with experiments suggesting the data would be stable for ...

“I have massive concerns with the state’s ability to deal with anything in tech,” says House Speaker Daniel Perez of Miami. TNS / Miami Herald File illustration Tallahassee Late last year, Gov. Ron ...

The Eclipse Foundation has released the final version of GlassFish 8, an update of its enterprise Java application server. The new release serves as a compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 ...