Roomba maker iRobot announces bankruptcy — brand will live on under ownership of former supplier
Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt; now owned by former supplier Picea
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Category: Hardware & Gear
5D glass storage ‘memory crystals’ promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience, which is roughly the age of the universe — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser
SPhotonix says it has moved its so-called 5D Memory Crystal technology out of the lab and closer to real-world deployment.
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Elizabeth Warren, other U.S. senators concerned about big tech pushing up electricity costs — demands explanation from Amazon, Google, Meta as AI data centers drive up residential energy bills
Three Democratic Senators are investigating the impact of the massive AI data center build out on the electricity bill of the average American.
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Boy breaks 50 of his father’s Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs worth nearly $4,000 — 25,600 GB of storage ruined by ten-year-old oblivious to global NAND crisis
Tragic images showing 50 mangled M.2 SSDs has been shared on social media. It looks like a naughty boy was the culprit.
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Don’t wait if you’re planning to upgrade your RAM or SSD, Kingston rep warns — says ‘prices will continue to go up,’ NAND costs up 246%
Kingston Datacenter SSD Business Manager Cameron Crandall said in an interview that NAND prices for RAM and SSD are expected to rise throughout 2026.
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