PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s next Xbox console, codenamed “Project Helix,” is expected to play both Xbox and PC games, further blurring platform boundaries. This convergence matters as it could ...

Crooked Media’s partnership with MS NOW officially begins Saturday with the launch of a compilation show featuring the best of the progressive digital company’s suite of podcasts. But it kicked off in ...

Friday’s news of a major shake-up at Microsoft’s Xbox division caught the gaming world by surprise. Phil Spencer, who has run Xbox for almost 12 years, announced his retirement, effective ...

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 ...

Microsoft Unveils Glass Storage That Could Preserve Data for 10,000 Years Your email has been sent Microsoft has just hit a major milestone in a project that could end the digital dark age. Their ...

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 ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

DUBLIN, Ireland—Microsoft said it has reached its goal of matching its total annual global electricity consumption with renewable sources, reaching a target it first set itself in 2020. Speaking on ...

Microsoft says it is on track to invest $50 billion by the end of the decade to help bring artificial intelligence to lower-income countries, as concerns mount over the technology’s potential to ...

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.

Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment. But thousands of years from now, our descendants may learn of our lives from a thin slice of glass carrying an impressive load of ...