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One billion hours on, and HGST still rules the roost for hard disk reliability
(credit: Alpha six)
Cloud backup provider Backblaze has published the latest data it has accumulated about the reliability of the hard drives it uses. In the first quarter of the year, the company passed more than a billion hours of aggregate drive usage since it started tracking reliability in April 2013.
HGST's drives have long stood out...
Q&A: GiveBIG tech platform recovers, but ‘we still have our helmets on,’ says Seattle Foundation CEO
The past two days have been...
Study: Traffic in Seattle still horrible, ranks 2nd-worst in U.S. for evening rush hour congestion
TomTom released its annual Traffic Index today, and the good news for Seattle drivers is that congestion levels did not increase from a year ago.
The bad news is that traffic did not improve in Seattle, either.
TomTom...
REI and startup goTenna team up so you can #optoutside and still get a cell signal
If you #optoutside and happen to wander further than the range of your cell signal, goTenna may be the device for you, and now recreational outfitter REI will be the only retail outlet to carry it.
TechCrunch reported Wednesday that...
Forbes says Bill Gates still world’s richest person, while Jeff Bezos jumps 10 spots to No. 5 on list of billionaires
Though the value of his personal fortune fell by $ 4 billion during the past year, Microsoft cofounder Bill...
MIT leads in first round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest, but UW is still in the race
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top rating in the design phase of a SpaceX-sponsored contest to develop levitating cars for a Hyperloop rapid-transit test track. More than 20 other teams, including a student group from the University of Washington, were also...
10,000-year-old mass killing is still a mystery
Here you can see an obsidian bladelet embedded in the victim's skull on the left side. (credit: Marta Mirazon Lahr)
Depending on your perspective, it was a war or just a violent encounter between two groups. Left in the shallow waters of a lagoon in Nataruk, Kenya, the victims' skeletons were preserved for 10,000 years in the positions they held...
Apple frustrated that it still can’t do for TV what it did for music
“I finally cracked it,” Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson. Jobs was referring to his company’s efforts at creating a new television and viewing experience, presumably one that would do for TV what the iPod did for music. Ever since that quote was...
Amazon Prime Air’s drone plan still leaves key questions unanswered
How much will it cost to get a 30-minute drone delivery from Amazon Prime Air? A newly published interview with Amazon executive Paul Misener suggests that the pricing question and other key issues have yet to be figured out. In the...
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