Month: March 2025
Trump’s DOJ still says Google should be broken up
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is still pushing to break up Google, according to a revised proposal filed Friday with federal Judge Amit Mehta. As in its proposal last year, the DOJ says Google should be forced to sell its web browser, Google Chrome, and potentially Android, as punishment…
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‘Writing is on the wall for spinning rust’: IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises
IBM’s FlashSystem C200 aims to replace HDDs with high-capacity flash storage It delivers 1.1PB raw capacity, 2.3PB effective, with 200,000 IOPS performance This flash option is optimized for archives, backups, and sequential workloads Pure Storage has been predicting the end of spinning disks for some time, and now IBM is…
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The adorable BDX Droids are coming to more Disney Parks around the world, including Disney World
Disney is bringing its BDX Droids to more parks around the world Smugglers Run will get its Mandalorian themed overlay in 2026 Fantastic 4 characters will make their Disneyland debut this summer Disney Imagineering has made a lot of wonderful stuff, but the BDX droids – aka the trio of,…
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Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is aware of potential issues affecting select DVD titles manufactured between 2006 – 2008, and the company has been actively working with consumers to replace defective discs. Where possible, the defective discs have been replaced with the same title. However, as some of the affected titles…
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Sure, noise-cancelling headphones are great for work but they saved my sleep (and sanity) and several vacations too – here’s how
Outside of the invention of penicillin, noise-cancelling cans might be humanity’s greatest creation. I’m not just making that obviously wild statement as an audiophile. Oh no, I’m spouting those controversial words as someone who has suffered from severe insomnia for many moons. A couple of years ago, I was lucky…
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The Apple Watch Series 10 just received its first $100 discount
The biggest Apple news of the week was the announcement of a sky blue MacBook Air and an M3-powered iPad Air; however, in the deals world, it was all about the Apple Watch Series 10. That’s because, right now, Apple’s flagship smartwatch is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best…
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