Microsoft’s Xbox CEO Asha Sharma on March 5 confirmed Project Helix as the codename for the company’s upcoming console, announcing it will play both Xbox and PC games, formalizing earlier reports of a ...

We don’t need to slow down AI to protect human-centered law. We need to ensure legal standards don’t silently recalibrate around machine-scale capabilities without democratic choice.” — Jim W. Ko, ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

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.