Those tiny little packs of dessicant that come in your new pack of shoes or your vitamins have many uses around your home.

Silica gel packets can protect, preserve, and even kill odors. Find out why you should hang onto them for use around the home ...

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Microsoft and Warner Bros. have teamed up with a proof of concept test for a new long-term storage technology. As part of Microsoft’s Project Silica, the two companies managed to cram the 1978 movie ...

Computer scientists have been researching new and better ways to store information ever since, well, computers were invented. PC components have come a long way since computers needed hard drives the ...

Storing up to 7TB of data on something the size of a DVD might not sound all that groundbreaking in a time where SSD storage with that sort of capacity is notably smaller in physical stature.

The last time we talked about Microsoft's Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros' Superman movie on a tiny ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has created a proof of concept for storing data on glass. The software ...

Developed by Italian dry bottom ash handling system provider Magaldi Power, the system produces green thermal energy — steam or hot air — which can be used directly in industrial plants or for the ...

In contrast to Microsoft’s new Edge browser, natural-language querying in Excel and other near-term Microsoft innovations, one of the more interesting announcements you won’t see anytime soon is ...

Recap: It's been nearly four years since we first heard about Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project tasked with storing digital data on sheets of glass. At the time, Microsoft was able to ...