Is it a water bottle? a pepper spray? a battery charger? No, it’s a portable SSD designed like a hand grenade, courtesy of Lenovo

Savior Tactical Mobile SSD is a marketing product designed to support a Chinese blockbuster war movie But it's not the brightest of product designs, as it might cause chaos and…

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Amazon wants to rent you a 32-core virtual workstation in the cloud for $4.40 per hour and yes, you’d still need to have a thin client to access it

GeneralPurpose.8xlarge delivers 32 virtual cores and 128GB memory plus 275GB storage This is far cheaper than Azure or Google Cloud, but more expensive than onprem if you plan to keep…

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‘An extension of a scientist’s brain’: Researchers explore AI to augment inspiration and imagination to revolutionize science

Scientists at US Department of Energy explore concept of an "Exocortex"It is pitched as an extension of the scientist's brain with a word-based HCIIt is uncharted territory as one member of…

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Blu-ray is dying so I believe it’s now time for ‘obsolete’ tape to shine again in the strangest of ironies

Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for allBut cheap storage all but killed the media for data hoardersTape remains the only true viable long-term solution…

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