Not such a long time ago in a galaxy called San Francisco, the only “Star Wars” gift shop in town required a special escort into Lucasfilm’s Presidio headquarters. That changed in early February with ...

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 ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books' worth ...