Hard drives and flash storage have gotten more reliable over the years, but only on a human timescale. What if we need data storage that lasts longer? Decades? Millennia? The key to that might be 5D ...

I’m writing this article in late August, a little while after World Photography Day. I spent a part of the weekend at a giant meetup held by Jamel Shabazz and there was a gentleman who used to shoot a ...

Using high-speed lasers, researchers have created "5D" data storage technology that could allow 500 TB of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc, according to the Optica society. The technique ...