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6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight

An anonymous reader writes in with some exciting news if you are a storage array manufacturer with a lot of money to spend on hard drives.”HGST Monday announced that it’s now shipping a helium-filled, 3.5-in hard disk drive with 50% more capacity than the current industry leading 4TB drives. The new drive uses 23% less power and is 38% lighter than the 4TB drives. Without changing the height, the new 6TB Ultrastar He6 enterprise-class hard drive crams seven disk platters into what was a five disk-platter, 4TB Ultrastar drive.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Why This Glow in the Dark Ice Cream Costs $225 a Scoop

Of all the unique varieties that Ben & Jerry’s has concocted over the years, nothing can come close to the wonderful absurdity that is this glowing ice cream created by Charlie Francis . Using a synthesized version of the luminescent proteins that cause jellyfish to glow when they’re agitated, this gleaming frozen treat actually gets brighter as you lick it. Read more…

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These Guys Just Built the Website Healthcare.gov Should Have Been

Calling the launch of Healthcare.gov a complete and utter disaster may sound a bit dramatic—but unfortunately, it’s also pretty accurate. With only six people able to actually enroll out of the 4.7 million unique visitors the site saw on launch day, something clearly needs to change. And since the government has its hands full with perpetually tripping over itself , three coders from San Francisco did what the feds couldn’t by building HealthSherpa.com— a website that actually works . Read more…

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Floating Generator Transforms the Ocean’s Motions into MegaWatts

While winds may die and clouds may obscure the sun, nothing can stop the rhythmic lapping of ocean waves. Now, an Australian company hopes to harness that power and covert it to usable electricity with the most powerful wave-energy generator ever created. And this is just their small-scale prototype. Read more…

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Anti-Abuse Crusaders Create Virtual Lolita to Trap Kiddie Porn Pervs

Child porn on the Internet is nothing new, but an international organization, Terre des Hommes , has adopted a novel method for busting the perverts who consume it. Meet Sweetie, the virtual Filipino girl who busted 1000 Humberts overseas. Read more…

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Western Digital’s New Hard Drives Are Filled With Helium

Digital storage is always getting cheaper and more capacious—but Western Digital has a plan to fill it with helium to make hard drives way more efficient than ever before. Read more…

Hackers Grab VIP and Celebrity Details from Online Limo Service

A hacker’s broken into the databases of an online limousine service, grabbing details of more than 850, 000 customers—including Fortune 500 CEOs, lawmakers, and A-list celebrities. Read more…

BlackBerry abandons $4.7 billion rescue deal and replaces CEO Thorsten Heins

If you were looking for positive news about BlackBerry’s future, we’d suggest you look away. Canada’s favorite smartphone maker has announced that its $4.7 billion rescue deal with Fairfax has collapsed. Instead, the company has switched to Plan B — raising $1 billion in cash with a debt issue and waving goodbye to current CEO Thorsten Heins . The board is currently looking for a replacement, but in the meantime, John S Chen, former CEO of Sybase, which is now a part of SAP, will take the reins as interim CEO. The only thing we’ve yet to learn is what this means for BlackBerry’s Global Creative Director , but she’s probably preoccupied in the recording studio. Filed under: Cellphones , Mobile , Blackberry Comments Source: The Globe and Mail , Marketwired

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Maingear announces Pulse 17, the ‘world’s thinnest’ 17-inch gaming notebook

Maingear’s normal method of constructing a gaming notebook works something a little like this: 1. Grab a Clevo chassis, 2. Crowbar as much high-power tech it can. For the Pulse 17, however, the company has decided to follow a different path. Abandoning Clevo’s hardware, the company has crafted a 17-inch laptop that’ll put a dent in your wallet and your friend’s egos. This self-styled “world’s thinnest” gaming notebook comes with a Haswell Core i7 4700HQ clocked at 2.4GHz, but which’ll push all the way up to 3.4GHz when required, in addition to a GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB RAM and a staggering 16GB RAM. Up front, your eyes will be staring into a 17.3-inch 1, 920 x 1, 080 widescreen display, and users will have a choice of a 1TB HDD or a pair of 480GB SSDs in a Raid 0 configuration. Systems go on sale from today and will start from $2, 099 — with prices increasing depending on your build-to-order choices, naturally. Filed under: Gaming , Laptops Comments

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Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes

An anonymous reader writes “Intel shipped open-source Broadwell graphics driver support for Linux this weekend. While building upon the existing Intel Linux GPU driver, the kernel driver changes are significant in size for Broadwell. Code comments from Intel indicate that these processors shipping in 2014 will have “some of the biggest changes we’ve seen on the execution and memory management side of the GPU” and “dwarf any other silicon iteration during my tenure, and certainly can compete with the likes of the gen3-> gen4 changes.” Come next year, Intel may now be able to better take on AMD and NVIDIA discrete graphics solutions.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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