From the browser to the back end, the ‘boring’ choice is exciting again. We look at three trends converging to bring SQL back ...

Abstract: Data products play an important role in driving the digital transformation of enterprises, establishing the market of data elements, and fostering the sustainable development of the economy.

Abstract: The natural task of human intelligence is to ask a question. Asking curious questions is an aspect of human curiosity that leads to inventions and discoveries. The task of converting visual ...

See how new updates to computer‑using agents improve UI automation with secure credentials, detailed monitoring, and scalable Cloud PC capacity. When we first introduced computer-using agents (CUAs) ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

This initiative, known as Project Silica, encodes data on glass plates reminiscent of early photography negatives. In a study published on 18 February, Microsoft claimed that the system uses common ...

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 ...

Microsoft Research has announced Project Silica, a method to read/write data into small slabs of glass. The glass offers extreme stability, with experiments suggesting the data would be stable for ...

PCWorld examines Microsoft’s Project Silica breakthrough, which now uses common borosilicate glass like Pyrex for ultra-long-term data storage lasting over 10,000 years. This technology addresses ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

Improvements to data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Long-term preservation of digital information has long challenged archivists and datacenters, as magnetic tapes and hard drives degrade within decades. Existing archival storage solutions have limited ...