While it's generally known how long hard drives actually live for, it stands to reason that some manufacturers make drives that are more reliable than others. But whose?
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Elon Musk's hyperloop dream began to take shape in reality last weekend as 27 teams, including six from outside the United States, participated in a competition to create the mass transit vehicle of the future. The competition in Hawthorne, California, sponsored by SpaceX, which Musk founded, attracted teams made up mostly of students who created pods designed to run on hyperloop transportation systems. In a hyperloop system, the vehicles, or pods, travel in a vacuum in tubes at speeds close to the speed of sound.
Microsoft's newest operating system isn't even out of the gate, but Tim Sweeney has Thoughts about it. As you may have guessed from his previous comments, he's not much of a fan.
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Apple's new Touch Bar is causing problems for MacBook Pro users who intended to use their new hardware to sit for bar exams. Multiple states have banned the new systems or restricted their use due to concerns about cheating.
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A near miss by a small asteroid, but we only spotted it a few hours ahead of time.
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The LG 5K UltraFine monitor that Apple recommends as a replacement for its now-discontinued Thunderbolt display has a significant problem -- it goes bonkers if you put it too close to a wireless router. If it's too close, it can freeze a machine completely.
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