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Star Trek: Discovery season 3 begins October 15 on CBS All Access in the US, and October 16 on Netflix in India and across the world.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the grand finale of Smart India Hackathon on August 1. The event will see over 10,000 students competing to solve 243 problem statements from government departments and industries.

Searches for “ableism” and “ableist language” are at an all-time high, Google said while revealing the latest search trends. The search giant also saw a rise in queries around “black mental health” globally in June.

Antitrust fever hits a peak as lawmakers get ready to grill top executives of Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple over Big Tech dominance, which has become even more pronounced during the ongoing pandemic.

Intel's Chief Engineering Officer Murthy Renduchintala is departing, as part of a move to divide a key technology unit into five separate teams. Ann Kelleher, a 24-year Intel veteran, will lead development of 7nm and 5nm chip technology processes.

Google has decided that most of its 200,000 employees and contractors should work from home through next June, to ensure safe health for everyone amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Today at the first Supermicro Storage Summit, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) unveiled two new top-loading storage systems. The new Supermicro top-loading storage systems have either 60- and/or 90-bays, SSG-6049SP-DE1CR60 and SSG-6049SP-DE1CR90. These new systems will act as expansion for cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage applications. (more…)

Last month, OWC released a new 2.5” consumer SATA SSD with the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 4TB SSD. Made to work with either Macs or PCs, the new drive is aimed at creative professionals and aims to deliver good performance for those using high definition video, digital cinema, professional audio, and graphic production workflows. The new SSD will also work well as an upgrade to existing 2.5" SATA deployments looking for increased performance or higher capacity. (more…)

In recent years, we continue to experience how storage performance is getting faster, which has been challenging the old storage protocols that have become a bottleneck for data centers. Despite using the latest fabric speed of 100GbE and new networking standards, such as InfiniBand, those slow network protocol technologies restrain flash device's performance, keep it inside the device itself and isolated in the box. In this article, we take a quick look into Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). Further, we overview NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and NVMe over RDMA over Converged Ethernet (NVMe over RoCE), a new protocol specification developed to solve bottlenecks of modern storage networks. (more…)

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