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Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found their next series. Netflix has announced an English-language adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy. Benioff and Weiss will write and executive produce alongside Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Rian Johnson.

Earlier this year Samsung released its 870 QVO SATA SSD. This SSD is composed of its second- generation quad-level cell (QLC) flash technology. We have already reviewed the 1TB and 4TB models of the drive. One of the big benefits of QLC is that it is less expensive than TLC and you can get higher capacities to replace legacy HDD. That is what we are looking at today in the 8TB. (more…)

The VAVA SSD Touch is a nice looking portable SSD that touts security. The little drive offers up to 2TB of storage and claims speeds up to 540MB/s read. The VAVA is aimed at those looking for a secure way to transfer their larger files. (more…)

Today NETGEAR Inc. announced the release of four new Gigabit unmanaged PoE switches. These new switches include the GS516PP, GS524PP, GS516UP and GS524UP two 16-port and two 24-port models that can be rackmounted or desktop mounted. The new switch models are great for plug-and-play high-density PoE+ and PoE++ installations. (more…)

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, and GeForce RTX 3090 'Ampere' GPUs promise the biggest generational performance leap yet, with second-gen RTX ray tracing.

Walmart on Tuesday unveiled the perks of its new membership program, Walmart Plus, which will grant subscribers unlimited free delivery, fuel discounts and no checkout lines.

Rocket Internet said on Tuesday it plans to delist its shares as it has sufficient access to capital outside the stock exchange and can better pursue a long-term approach to investing.

Today, HP announced its new and updated line of Z products, ranging from the tiny Z2 Mini G5 to the ZCentral 4R, a very powerful 1U system designed to be a turn-key remote workstation solution. There’s a lot of products to get through, but the overarching theme is a real focus on remote setups and being able to work from home with emphasis on HP’s own ZCentral Remote Boost. There’s also a good emphasis on creating one of the industry’s most sustainable portfolios, with a lot of attention paid to packaging, material use, and utilizing ocean-bound plastic (that is, plastic that would have otherwise ended up in waterways). They are also previewing an enhanced Wacom tablet experience to allow inking input remotely. (more…)

Today Broadcom Inc. announced the release of the Brocade X7 Directors and G720 Switch, what they are calling the industry’s first Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel switching platforms. These platforms are said to be foundational infrastructure for the on-demand data center that can enable an autonomous SAN. The company also announced the first 64Gb/s Fibre Channel optical transceiver, that is being qualified for use in Brocade switches and Emulex adapters, for end-to-end Gen 7 performance. (more…)

Today, Seagate updated its IronWolf line of Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives. The changes include adding two new SATA SSD (Solid-State Drives) and a new, larger 18TB HDD (Hard Disk Drive). It’s impressive to see them adding another 2TB to their largest drives just a year after they released their 16TB models. It’s even more impressive since they just added M.2 form-factor SSDs a few months ago. (more…)