From Tom's Hardware: Seagate has demonstrated the industry's first hard disk drive connected to a host using a PCIe interface at the Open Compute Project Summit. Like solid-state drives, the experimental hard drive uses the NVMe protocol to operate alongside SSDs seamlessly. Usage of a single...

From The Verge: On Monday, Discord CEO Jason Citron struck fear (or joy) into the hearts of Discord fans by tweeting a screenshot of what appeared to be crypto wallets in the app, but Wednesday evening, he said the company doesn’t actually plan to ship what he was showing off.

“Thanks for all the...

From PC Mag: Elon Musk has come through on a promise to sell Tesla stock if his Twitter followers told him to. As CNBC reports, Musk sold two blocks of shares yesterday worth roughly $5 billion.

The smaller of the two transactions was for more than 930,000 shares worth over $1.1 billion, but this...

From ExtremeTech: A metallurgist once responsible for testing the steel used on US Navy submarines has pled guilty to falsely representing the steel’s integrity for more than three decades.

Elaine Marie Thomas, a 67-year-old former director of metallurgy, worked from 1985 to 2017 at a Washington...

From The Verge: Meta, the new name for the parent company that oversees Facebook and Instagram, suddenly wants to be less creepy. According to a post on the Meta for Business blog, the company is blocking advertisers from using detailed ad targeting options that show ads based on your engagement in...

From ExtremeTech: The Milan-X CPUs and V-Cache equipped Zen 3 CPUs that AMD has been talking up since earlier this year are headed to market in both servers and the wider consumer space. AMD confirmed today that it would ship its Milan-X CPUs with up to 64MB of additional L3 cache per chiplet in Q1...

From CNET: Apple is working on a new service, built for small businesses with up to 500 employees.

Apple Business Essentials will include iCloud storage, Apple support and device management among other offerings, the company said in a blog post, Wednesday.

"Apple Business Essentials is designed...

From The Verge: Airbnb has updated its search filters and accessibility review process with the goal of making it easier for people with disabilities to find accommodations on its platform, the company announced in a blog post.

Hosts can now submit pictures of the accessibility features in their...

From CNET: Rivian, as the kids (maybe?) say, made bank this week. On Tuesday, the electric truck startup announced the results of its initial public offering, and it hauled in a massive $11.9 billion after selling 153 million shares of Class A common stock at $78 apiece. That values the company at a...

From TechCrunch: Alex Gorsky, the chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, has joined Apple’s board of directors. Gorsky’s move to Apple’s board comes ahead of his planned departure as CEO of Johnson & Johnson in January 2022. It also coincides with Apple focusing more on health technology.

It’s not...