Microsoft Just Found a Way to Store Data for Millennia by Using a Common Kitchen Item

The breakthrough comes from Microsoft researchers and could enable the preservation of terabytes of data for a very long time ...

Project Silica breakthrough lets Microsoft store digital data in glass for 10,000 years

Microsoft has been developing Project Silica for years, transforming glass into permanent storage media capable of retaining digital data for up to 10,000 years. The company ...

How DNA evidence could ID Nancy Guthrie's captor even without a match

While DNA evidence found on a glove believed to have been worn by a man suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie didn't produce a match in the FBI's database, it could still give investigators the clues ...
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End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years

Microsoft’s Project Silica uses ultrafast lasers to store 4.84TB of data in small glass plates, preserving digital history for up to 10,000 years.
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Enhancing Domain-Specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Synthetic Data Generation and Evaluation using Reasoning Models

Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face significant performance gaps when applied to technical domains requiring precise information extraction from complex documents. Current ...