Joshua Goldman

Western Digital 14TB hard drive sets storage record

Western Digital’s Ultrastar Hs14 packs a massive 14TB capacity into a single drive — a world’s first — and you can’t have it. Not yet at least.  The new enterprise-class drive falls under the company’s HGST brand and is built for cloud and data centers. According to Western Digital, it has 40 percent more capacity …

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HP Spectre x360 has instant privacy screen, 10

Over its past couple generations, HP‘s 13.3-inch Spectre x360 has turned into an excellent premium two-in-one. With this latest redesign, though, it might now be the best.  Using customer feedback, HP refined the Spectre x360 where users felt it was needed. The system is now available with eighth-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors including a quad-core option while its …

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Sonos moves Alexa voice controls into public beta

Sonos owners, it’s finally time to sharpen your Alexa skills.  The maker of high-end, connected speakers announced today at a press event in New York City that Alexa-powered voice controls will arrive via a firmware update. The voice controls will allow you to cue up music on your Sonos speakers using voice commands with an Alexa-enabled device such as the …

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GoPro Hero 6 Black IRL: Smoother 4K shots and slower slow

The GoPro Hero 6 Black isn’t quite the complete overhaul that its predecessor was, but it does raise the bar on what you can expect out of such a small freakin’ camera. It’s essentially the whipped cream and chocolate sauce on top of the awesome sundae that is the Hero 5 Black (dammit, now I’m hungry). The outside doesn’t change …

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Watch GoPro’s ‘The Moment’ event: GoPro Hero 6 expected

Update (9:50 a.m. PT): The GoPro Hero 6 is now official.  GoPro will broadcast its 2017 launch event live from San Francisco, today, Sept. 28. GoPro CEO Nick Woodman will take the stage at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET, but viewers can start tuning in here at 8:00 a.m. PT/11:00 a.m. ET for the live stream. At the event, called …

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DJI adds some variety to its Mavic Pro, Phantom 4 Pro drones

DJI makes a lot of fine adjustments to its camera drones. Much of the time these are done through firmware updates that unlock new features or enhance existing ones, but it also takes an existing drone and tweaks it. At IFA 2017, it announced it would do both.  The Phantom 4 Pro is now available in matte gray.  DJI The …

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Goodbye, home button: iPhone 8 may be more radical than thought

Now playing: Watch this: 6 most-wanted iPhone 8 features 2:07 The iPhone’s home button has been rumored to be on the design chopping block for a while, but it now seems it might go beyond just removing it. Apple’s next iPhones $1,000 for iPhone 8? Here’s why you shouldn’t freak out What the Galaxy Note 8 means for the iPhone …

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Verizon Wireless starts Android Oreo push to Pixels

Now playing: Watch this: Android Oreo has arrived 1:20 Looks like Google Pixel and Pixel XL owners on Verizon Wireless are getting a special treat.  Google made the latest version of its mobile operating system, Android Oreo, officially official last week. And the carrier is already starting to push the update to Pixel devices on the network.  Verizon didn’t announce …

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Samsung working on firmware fix for European TV owners

Getting a software update pushed out to your phone, computer and other devices isn’t unusual. What’s rare is for that update to completely kill your device.  For some Samsung TV owners in Europe, though, it seems that’s exactly what happened. As reported earlier by The Guardian — and evidenced by customer reports in Samsung’s UK community forums — Samsung TV owners are saying their …

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Facebook will start bundling your memories for sharing

Facebook‘s latest feature helps you remember your memories more often.  More than two years ago, Facebook launched its On This Day feature, which combs through your feed to surface meaningful memories and moments that happened in past years. The social network is now using that knowledge to bundle up your recent related memories into monthly and seasonal recaps. And like …

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