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Apple discontinues iPod Nano and Shuffle, updates iPod Touch models

(credit: Chris Foresman) You’ll see no mention of the iPod Nano or iPod Shuffle on Apple’s website anymore. Today, the company removed the two media players from its website, and reports suggest the company is discontinuing both devices. A report from Business Insider includes a statement from an Apple spokesperson citing the “simplifying” of the iPod lineup. “Today, we are simplifying our iPod lineup with two models of iPod Touch now with double the capacity starting at just $199 and we are discontinuing the iPod shuffle and iPod nano,” reads the statement from an Apple spokesperson. Some of the most affordable products in Apple’s lineup, the iPod nano started at $149 and the iPod shuffle started at $49. Both devices have been sitting on the back burner for a while: Apple hasn’t introduced a meaningful update to either device since 2012, only adding new colors options for both in 2015. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Seagate wants to push huge 16TB HDD out the door in next 18 months

(credit: Seagate) Good news if you like big hard drives: Seagate announced on an earnings call yesterday ( as reported by PC World ) that it has both 14TB and 16TB versions of its helium-filled spinning hard drives in the pipeline for the next 18 months. A 12TB version of the drive is “being tested” and should be ready sooner rather than later. And the push for ever-higher capacities will continue after that—Seagate wants to have a 20TB drive ready by 2020, and it would like to push the minimum capacity for drives shipping in new PCs to 1TB. 500GB drives are typical in entry-level models these days. Seagate still slightly trails some of its competitors here—HGST beat Seagate to market with the 10TB version of its helium-filled hard drive, and HGST already has a 12TB version of the same drive on the market. But Seagate’s drives tend to be cheaper than HGST’s, and while HGST drives have lower failure rates according to Backblaze’s drive reliability data , Seagate’s reliability has greatly improved in recent years . Larger hard drives make it possible to increase the capacity of a server or a home NAS unit without actually needing more physical space. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Amazon Japan’s manga-ready Kindle has 8 times the storage

Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books . What it’s going to do? Release a special model just for those readers, apparently. The company has introduced a manga version of the Kindle Paperwhite with 32GB of storage, or eight times as much space as the run-of-the-mill 4GB model. You could cram every single volume of Asari-chan , Kochikame and Naruto into this e-reader, Amazon says. On top of that, a 33 percent faster page turning speed promises to keep you engrossed in your comics. The manga Kindle is available for pre-order now, with pricing commanding a slight premium over the usual Paperwhite. You’re spending ¥16, 280 (about $157), or ¥12, 280 ($118) if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber. The first units ship October 21st, and the update to improve page turning performance should arrive by the end of the month. As you might gather, it’s not very likely that you’ll see this model elsewhere in the world — when the 4GB in regular Kindles is enough to hold thousands of regular books, Amazon doesn’t have much incentive to boost their capacity any time soon. Source: Amazon Japan (translated 1) , (2)

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Engineers Just Broke the Capacity Limit For Fiber Optic Transmission

So, that Internet apocalypse that’s going to befall us when the our fiber optic cables max out? Maybe not so much. On Thursday, engineers reported in Science that they’d broken the “capacity limit” for fiber optic transmission, opening the door to future networks that carry more data further at lower costs. Read more…

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