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Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia had an intriguing demo on show at Computex this year, in a next-generation “Optical” SSD design. These drives utilize light, rather than electricity, to transfer data between the drive and host system, offering greater signal integrity in the process. That makes it possible to run the …

It’s quite rare for Apple to announce a new technology at one of its hardware launch events, then scuttle it afterwards, but that’s exactly what happened with its much-hyped AirPower charging mat. The tantalizing mat would have been able to charge three Apple devices at once: an iPhone, Apple Watch, …

People with Severe Vision Loss Less Accurately Judge Distance of Nearby Sounds, Study Shows A new study shows that greater severity of vision loss is associated with increased auditory judgments of distance and room size; on average, participants with severe visual losses perceived sounds to be twice as far away, …

Uranium is actually a rather common element on Earth. You can find it in small quantities within most rocks, but 99.3% of that uranium is the relatively harmless uranium-238. It’s the much more rare uranium-235 that sustains nuclear reactions and is vital in the production of nuclear weapons. Naturally, being …