Solid-state drives (SSDs) are much faster than spinning hard drives, but many of us still keep a few mechanical hard drives around for bulk storage. While you can get SSDs with a terabyte or more space, they’re extremely expensive. Meanwhile, spinning drives are creeping up past 12 terabytes. A new …

Japan-based accounting software company Freee, one of the country’s most-prominent startups, has raised a $60 million Series E funding round as it bids to expand its services into other areas of management for its customers. Freee was founded six years ago — we wrote about the startup when it raised a …

August is upon us and in just a couple months, the Portland Trail Blazers will enter the 2018-19 NBA regular season. An up-and-down 2017-18 campaign culminated in a first-round sweep at the hands of the New Orleans Pelicans and saw multiple rumors of head coach Terry Stotts on the hot …

Niche technologies like MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) have lived on the fringes of the mainstream memory business for decades. They tend to offer fringe benefits that make them attractive for certain, specific applications but are typically stuck with baggage that prevents them from addressing a wider space. A new …

It was a crazy idea on the face of it — sending a $2.5 billion robot to another planet with a complex rocket sled contraption to get it safely to the surface. It worked, though, and Curiosity began its exploration of the red planet six years ago. As the rover …

Google announced Android Go in 2017, but we didn’t get our first look at finished devices until 2018. Those first Android Go phones were not great. They were sluggish despite the stripped down software, and the price was still too high. Now, Asus has launched its first Go phone called …

Google has been testing Android P since early this year, and it just released the final developer preview a few weeks ago. Now, the final build of Android 9 is out, and it’s called Pie. Android Pie is currently rolling out to Pixel devices, plus the Essential Phone. It brings …

Intel has been in the news a great deal of late, but the stories themselves haven’t given us much opportunity to talk about what’s happening at the company in a more cohesive way. In many ways, it’s a company at a crossroads, grappling with manufacturing issues at a difficult moment, …

TSMC is bringing its factories back online after a virus crippled its production and slowed wafer processing at the company’s foundries. The company has released a statement on the outbreak, which began on August 3 and was 80 percent contained as of August 5. The foundry expected to be back …

In a massive surprise announcement at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, Patrick Stewart announced what many fans of the franchise have wanted for over 15 years — he’s returning to the role of Jean-Luc Picard, sometime Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Unfortunately, like …