According to Microsoft , borosilicate glass was the best choice since it is a permanent data storage material that is resistant to water, heat and dust. The company published its latest findings in Nature and proclaimed that it chiseled information into the glass on a microscopic level using lasers that pulsed so rapidly they could only be measured in femtoseconds one quadrillionth of a second. According to the report, Microsoft was able to store a grand total of 4.8 TB of data on a 120 mm...