Samsung Starts Mass Producing Cheaper 4TB SSDs

From PC Mag: If you want to go out and purchase a 4TB SSD today, Samsung will happily take your money in return for an 4TB 860 Evo. The problem is, you'll be paying over $1,000 for one. Even halving the capacity to 2TB still means spending $500. Cheap SSDs mean settling for much lower capacities...

Firefox Advance tries leading you to new places you'll like on the web

From CNET: Mozilla began testing a Firefox extension Tuesday that shows you its best guesses for what you want to see on the web.

So far it's an experiment distributed through Mozilla's Test Pilot program to let interested people try new features and help Mozilla refine them before release. But...

Asus brings a $110 Android Go phone to the US

From The Verge: Asus has brought the ZenFone Live L1, its first Android Go phone, to the US. The phone has budget specs, but it could stand out at $110 thanks to a couple of features uncommon for its price range: an 18:9 display and a face unlock feature.

That said, even with its tall display, the...

New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs Unveiled: 32-Core Chip Is $1,800

From PC Mag: Almost exactly a year after its first Ryzen Threadripper processors burst into the somewhat stagnant market for high-performance desktop (HEDT) consumer CPUs, AMD is poised to give gamers, multimedia pros, and other bleeding edge-dwellers four new Threadripper chips with even better...

Toshiba Releases New 12TB, 14TB Hard Drives for NAS Integrators

From eWeek: Despite 99 percent of data storage news revolving around NAND flash and other types of non-volatile memory in solid-state media, it’s easy to forget that mechanical hard drives with large capacities are still being manufactured and deployed often in production.

Toshiba America...

Facebook wants financial data from America’s largest banks

From The Verge: Facebook is asking large banks in the US to share their customers’ card transactions, shopping habits, and checking account balances to offer new financial services, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

In an emailed response to the report, Facebook denies that it’s “actively...

Google Pixel 3 rumors: Google leaks Oct. 4 as probable launch date

From PC World: The year of Android releases isn’t over until Google says it is. After Samsung, LG, and Apple each have their moment in the spotlight, all attention turns to the Pixel phone, and this year’s release—inevitably called Pixel 3—is shaping up to be one of the best phones of the year. At...

Samsung Starts Mass Production of QLC V-NAND-Based SSDs

From AnandTech: Samsung on Monday announced the industry’s first consumer SSDs based on QLC V-NAND memory. The drives will be available with capacities of up to 4 TB and will target mainstream PCs featuring a SATA interface.

The new Samsung QLC SSDs are based on the company’s 1 Tb 64-layer QLC V...

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