Microscoft’s glass storage method can store 4.8 terabytes of data.Credit: Microsoft ResearchResearchers 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. But current magnetic tapes and hard drives are ill-suited for long-term data storage because they degrade in about ten years. This “impressive” glass-based alternative could “in principle, act as near-permanen...