Hardware
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Samsung’s New External SSD Transfers Data As Fast As It Transfers Money From Your Wallet
An external drive is the easiest way to boost the storage capacity of your computer, but at the cost of bulk, convenience and speed. There isn’t a lot to be done about the added bulk or pain of wrangling cables, and while an external SSD usually can’t compete with the transfer speeds of having a…
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AI And Carbon Nanotubes Are Now Being Used To Improve The World’s Keyboards
When it comes to groundbreaking research, there are two fields that seem to occupy the newscycle: Carbon nanotubes and artificial intelligence. The potential combination of those two fields of study seems like it could radically change the word as we know it, or, as South Korean scientists have discovered, at least change how we type.
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Google Is Absorbing Nest And With It, Your Smart Home
Google is bringing Nest back into the fold. Nest, known for it’s slick thermostats and user-friendly security cameras, was acquired by Alphabet (then called Google) for $US3.2 billion ($4.1 billion) in 2014. Since then the company has grown – according to Geekwire it has more than quadrupled its staff, and it’s rolled out a wide…
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I Desperately Want This Ancient Apple Disk Drive With A Blu-Ray Upgrade
I haven’t touched a DVD, CD, or even a Blu-Ray disc in years, let alone one of the floppy disks the Apple Disk II was designed to load back in the early ’80s. But I might find a reason to use outdated media again just to justify putting this upgraded piece of classic computer hardware…