When Jessica Ko was head of design at Google and then Opendoor, she realized that her teams spent about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets. In many cases, they’d find older versions. Or they couldn’t find what they were looking for. Or even worse, they’d accidentally pick the wrong asset. “It […]
Western Digital in Advanced Talks To Merge With Japan’s Kioxia Holdings
Western Digital is in advanced talks for a potential $20 billion stock merger with Japanese semiconductor firm Kioxia Holdings, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters: The companies could reach an…
Synthetic Brain Cells That Store ‘Memories’ Are Possible, New Model Reveals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Live Science: Scientists have created key parts of synthetic brain cells that can hold cellular “memories” for milliseconds. The achievement could one day lead to computers that work like the human brain. In the…
Can You Recycle a Hard Drive? Google is Quietly Trying To Find Out
Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers. From a report: The U.S. alone generates nearly 17 percent of all used hard disk drives — the largest share globally — and researchers have estimated that if all of these…
PS5 gets high-speed M.2 SSD storage support in new beta system software
Compatible drives need to meet stringent physical and technical guidelines.