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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia. However, information written into glass by lasers ...

An automated system for storing large amounts of information in glass could change the future of data centres. Our world runs on data, from the internet and readouts of countless industrial sensors to ...

Despite owning FileMaker, Apple has never included a database app with iWork. Apple has now acquired Kuzu, Inc, a firm developing fast, flexible graph databases. Apple has had the FileMaker database ...

Microsoft confirms a power outage at a data center broke Windows 11's Microsoft Store and Windows Updates. In a statement, Microsoft said, "A power outage at a datacenter is impacting customers’ ...

Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data from anyone who enters its supermarkets, according to new signage posted at the chain's Manhattan and Brooklyn locations earlier this month ...

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud have announced a new expansion in their long-standing energy and technology collaboration. Together, the companies will partner to develop multiple, new gigawatt ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Earlier this month, Google researchers ...