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Updated: Samsung unveils fast 950 Pro enterprise SSD

By Chuong Nguyen Samsung unveiled its 950 Pro solid state drive in Seoul, Korea at the company’s annual SSD Global Summit. The 950 Pro drive utilizes a slim M.2 form factor for portability and energy efficiency, designed for notebooks and mobile workstations. Samsung claims that the 950 Pro SSD is the first Non-Volatile Memory Express…

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15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Gets $300 Discount At Best Buy

Best Buy has cut $300 off the normal price tag of the 15.4-inch Retina MacBook Pro released in May 2015, offering the 2.2GHz model for $1,699 instead of the regular $1,999. This is a one-day deal valid only on Monday, Sept. 21. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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BBC Micro:Bit Release Put Off Until 2016 Due To Production Issues

The pocket-sized codeable computer is BBC’s most ambitious education initiative for three decades. However, the anticipated release of the gizmo is now pushed to an early 2016 rollout. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Xerox strikes back at bootleggers with new printable memory chips

By Jamie Hinks Xerox has debuted a pair of printable memory devices that are geared towards preventing counterfeit products. First reported by phys.org, the Xerox Printed Memory is an extremely secure label that contains up to 36 bits of rewritable memory and is able to store up to 68 billions points of data to hasten…

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Xerox strikes back at bootleggers with new printable memory chips

By Jamie Hinks Xerox has debuted a pair of printable memory devices that are geared towards preventing counterfeit products. First reported by phys.org, the Xerox Printed Memory is an extremely secure label that contains up to 36 bits of rewritable memory and is able to store up to 68 billions points of data to hasten…

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Airports Are Testing Unmanned Traffic Control Systems

A remote-controlled AI air traffic system is claimed to outperform actual people and could reduce the cost of building new towers. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Review: Sony PSZ-HB2T

By EZ Bardeguez Introduction and design Whether it be for internal or external use, hard drives are everywhere and everyone always needs one for something. There are so many on the market and seemingly all function well to some extent in terms of speed and portability. So what makes a hard drive good? Well, it…

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Review: Sony PSZ-HB2T

By EZ Bardeguez Introduction and design Whether it be for internal or external use, hard drives are everywhere and everyone always needs one for something. There are so many on the market and seemingly all function well to some extent in terms of speed and portability. So what makes a hard drive good? Well, it…

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Hands-on review: Amazon Fire 10 HD

By Gareth Beavis There might be some among us that though Amazon might give up on the tablet game – but instead the brand has gone away and created yet another iPad competitor. While journalists are usually labelled as lazy for instantly comparing Apple’s device to any new tablet on the market, in this case…

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Hands-on review: Amazon Fire 10 HD

By Gareth Beavis Many people have been thinking Amazon might give up on the tablet game – but instead the brand has gone away and created yet another iPad competitor. While journalists are usually labelled as lazy for instantly comparing Apple’s device to any new tablet on the market, in this case it was Amazon…

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Review: Epson PictureMate PM-400

By Juan Martinez Introduction and design I was never much of a photo-taker. Most of the snaps I took were of important moments with family and friends, or vacation landscapes that I wanted to remember later. I usually just fired off a few pics, loaded them onto Facebook and returned to them from time to…

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Review: Epson PictureMate PM-400

By Juan Martinez Introduction and design I was never much of a photo-taker. Most of the snaps I took were of important moments with family and friends, or vacation landscapes that I wanted to remember later. I usually just fired off a few pics, loaded them onto Facebook and returned to them from time to…

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Review: Netgear ReadyNAS 3130

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction and setup The ReadyNAS 3130 is a 1U rack-mount enterprise-class storage device. It’s sold in a diskless configuration with space for up to four hard disks. The documentation suggests an official maximum capacity of 24TB, by using 6TB disks, although there’s no reason it shouldn’t work with 8TB disks (such as…

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Review: Netgear ReadyNAS 3130

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction and setup The ReadyNAS 3130 is a 1U rack-mount enterprise-class storage device. It’s sold in a diskless configuration with space for up to four hard disks. The documentation suggests an official maximum capacity of 24TB, by using 6TB disks, although there’s no reason it shouldn’t work with 8TB disks (such as…

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Hands-on review: UPDATED: iOS 9

By Matt Swider Siri, design and Apple Maps iOS 9 is launching today, and from the beta, we know it’s already way better than iOS 8, thanks to new features that make the iPhone and iPad software easier to use. Siri is smarter, Apple Maps has been improved and the notifications drop-down menu is now…

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