Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
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@msftresearch
@msftresearch
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Using Project Silica technology, researchers successfully stored the 1978 ‘Superman’ movie on glass — using femtosecond lasers to encode the data and machine learning to read it back: https://news.microsoft.com/... #MSIgnite
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@lindydonna
Donna Malayeri comma PhD
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OH: this is a DVD. They invented a DVD. https://twitter.com/...
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@markrussinovich
Mark Russinovich
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Learn more about our breakthrough in archival storage, Silica, where we reached a milestone of efficiently storing a full movie and reading it back: https://news.microsoft.com/...
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@matvelloso
Mat Velloso
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Learn more about Project Silica: https://www.microsoft.com/... Traditional magnetic storage can't keep up with the data explosion we are now seeing. How about a new tech that can keep your data for millions of years and is immune to magnetic fields, radiation and maybe even toddl…
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@imbrandonbrown
Brandon Brown
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Really interesting article about Warner's preservation efforts. “Warner Bros. has been storing all of its films and TV shows, even those shot in digital formats, on 35mm film.” https://twitter.com/...
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@umerazad
Umer Azad
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This is incredible. “The hard silica glass can withstand being boiled in hot water, baked in an oven, microwaved, flooded, scoured, demagnetized and other environmental threats that can destroy priceless historic archives or cultural treasures if things go wrong.” https://twitter…