Travis Kalanick is renaming City Storage Systems to Atoms, while focusing on robotics for mining and transportation.

For years, storage sat quietly in the background of enterprise infrastructure. It was necessary but unglamorous, and rarely the centerpiece of innovation. But 2026 marks a decisiv ...

While previous embedding models were largely restricted to text, this new model natively integrates text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single numerical space — reducing latency by as muc ...

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 ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books' worth ...

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 ...

Modern solid-state drives are fast, silent, shock-resistant, and can be used with any computer, from laptops to enterprise servers. Unlike hard drives with spinning platters, SSDs use flash memory to ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to protect that information from unintended access. Now ...

For some companies, AI will be existential. And AI will outright transform other companies - turning the old into new. The latest earnings from Western Digital and Sandisk suggest we may be witnessing ...

The AI buildout is creating a supply-demand imbalance in storage devices. Prices of DRAM and NAND storage devices soared in 2025. Prices of memory storage devices are expected to continue to climb ...

The companies behind hard drives and storage are leading a stock rally. The surge comes after Jensen Huang flagged data storage as a key constraint for AI at CES 2026. SanDisk led the rally, jumping ...