Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have proposed a new type of memory, in ...

Diamonds are often considered symbols of eternal love. However, their potential to preserve information for millions of years might be even more extraordinary. Researchers have recently developed a ...

The technology historians at ColdFusion explore how next-gen optical discs could revolutionize global data storage.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered a method of converting magnetic data into optical data for free, without external electricity. This is a very big step towards flexible, cheap, ...

Cerabyte, founded in 2022 in Munich, Germany and recently opened a Silicon Valley headquarters. It has raised $10M in seed funding to date, announced availability of protypes of its ceramic on glass ...

Holographic data storage represents a transformative approach for recording information volumetrically by utilising the interference patterns of coherent light. In contrast to conventional ...

Semiconductor giant Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire Celestial AI, a startup building optical interconnects for ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...

You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...