From Tom's Hardware: We already know that HDDs suddenly have a new lease on life with new recording technologies, but now your next hard drive may be twice as fast as any drive on the market. Seagate announced that it plans to double the performance of its future HDDs with its multi-actuator...
From AnandTech: Toshiba this month announced that it had started sample shipments of the industry’s first automotive grade embedded UFS storage devices for ADAS and infotainment systems. The new eUFS chips offer capacities from 16 GB to 128 GB (with a 256 GB option coming in Q2 2018), can handle...
From Recode: Facebook is cracking down on a new type of clickbait: Posts that ask people to “Like” or share or comment to goose engagement numbers, what Facebook is calling “engagement bait.”
You’ve probably seen posts like this in your feed. Like if you think cats are best. Share if you think dogs...
It spins up fast
And big in storage size
It's called Seagate BarraCuda
For all this data I will plan on storing
Twelve thousand GBs and we go beyond
Store my things, oh hard drive
Oh hard drive
Upgrade this computer
Store like never before
Oh hard drive
I'll upgrade this computer.
Over the past summer, I had been playing a video game called Overcooked. This local co-op game takes place in a kitchen as you and up to three other friends run around in a kitchen trying to make dishes as fast as you can. Tasks can vary from chopping, cooking, dish placement, and delivering them to the window. If the plates come back, you will then need to take and wash them before reusing them. While it is a pretty straightforward concept, the...
From AnandTech: Western Digital recently announced plans to use the RISC-V ISA across its existing product stack as well as for future products that will combine processing and storage. The company plans to develop RISC-V cores internally and license them from third parties to use in its own...
From CNET: Norway completed its transition to digital radio this week, making it the first country to shut down national FM radio broadcasts. The move began in January to allow for better sound quality and more channels. The digital system known as digital audio broadcasting (DAB) also reportedly...
From EETimes: Claiming an industry first, MediaTek announced a biosensor that monitors six types of health functions — including tracking heart-rate information, blood-pressure trends, peripheral oxygen-saturation levels and more — from a smartphone.
The MediaTek Sensio MT6381 is a software and...
From AnandTech: Synaptics this week introduced its first Clear ID FS9500 in-display optical sensor that can be installed under the surface of an OLED screen. The fingerprint reader works faster than facial recognition and can be used in any environments, including dark rooms and sunny beaches...
From CNET: Sometimes there are people on your Facebook feed you just don't want to see for a while. The social network says it wants to help.
Facebook on Friday globally released a feature called Snooze that lets users hide certain people, groups or brand pages for up to 30 days, without...
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