Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

Optical drives are made to play discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. MileA/Getty Images Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every ...

Recently folks from the University of California, Riverside announced that they had made progress in creating an ultraviolet solid state laser. Current Blu-ray lasers emit light in the blue part of ...

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

I got myself a new USB blu-ray drive last week, so now I feel the need to justify my purchase. Hence the following claim: optical discs will remain in use forever. Well, the rest of this century, at ...

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

Sony’s push to get enterprise users to store data on optical discs has received added momentum with its acquisition of a Facebook-linked startup focused on optical storage. Led by former Facebook ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...