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This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years


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 of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

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