Microsoft knows that the traditional methods for long-term data storage are nowhere near perfect, and in response, it created “Project Silica” in 2019.
This venture from the Microsoft Research team, which explores ways to safely store digital data in glass, blew us away when we first saw it, and the team has now returned with a major update after a half-decade of research.

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