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Project Silica

Microsoft Research effort to store data inside quartz glass — femtosecond lasers write 3D voxels, polarization microscopy reads them back — aimed at write-once cloud archives that last for thousands of years.

1 find · high confidence
HQCambridge, UK
AffiliationMicrosoft
MakerMicrosoft Research
CategoryData storage
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