Microsoft's tech for 10,000-year data storage now works with kitchenware glass
Microsoft's Project Silica — which stores data as tiny 3D marks inside glass that last over 10,000 years — just hit a major milestone: it now works with cheap, everyday borosilicate glass (the stuff your kitchen bakeware is made of) instead of expensive specialty silica. A new "phase voxel" encoding method trades some storage density for dramatically simpler and cheaper hardware, fitting 2 TB on a single 12-cm glass square. If this scales, it could fundamentally change how we archive everything from medical records to AI training datasets — no more replacing degrading tape drives every decade.