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Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man and the chairman of Reliance Industries, said this week that his telecom firm will offer users 100 GB of free cloud storage. Oil-to-retail giant Reliance, which is India’s most valuable firm by market cap, has upended … Continue reading Asia’s Richest Man Says He Will Give Everyone 100 GB of Free Cloud Storage
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man and the chairman of Reliance Industries, said this week that his telecom firm will offer users 100 GB of free cloud storage. Oil-to-retail giant Reliance, which is India’s most valuable firm by market cap, has upended … Continue reading Asia’s Richest Man Says He Will Give Everyone 100 GB of Free Cloud Storage
While hydrogen’s high energy per mass makes it an excellent fuel, it’s awfully hard and expensive to store long-term. That could change, thanks to the work of researchers at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich. They’ve worked out a way to store hydrogen in ordina… Continue reading Hydrogen stored in iron: A cheap, scalable grid battery for the winter
The Register’s Iain Thomson reports: The FBI has made serious slip-ups in how it processes and destroys electronic storage media seized as part of investigations, according to an audit by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. Drive… Continue reading FBI Is Sloppy On Secure Data Storage and Destruction, Warns Watchdog
Australia is building a digital ID and information verification system called Trust Exchange, or TEx, that will see the Government verifying customer details for businesses via a smartphone app. Continue reading Australian Digital ID: TEx System Poised to Boost Security By Sharing Less Data With Businesses
In the 1980s, a radio show about home computers was broadcast on a handful of California radio stations. 40 years later, reel-to-reel tapes of the shows were re-discovered — and digitized — by an Internet Archive special collections manager… Continue reading Internet Archive Streams Re-Discovered 1980s Radio Show About Early Computers
“I’ve been somewhat okay about backing up our home data,” writes long-time Slashdot reader 93 Escort Wagon.
But they could use some good advice:
We’ve got a couple separate disks available as local backup storage, and my own data also gets occasiona… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What Network-Attached Storage Setup Do You Use?
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google has revealed technical details of its in-house data transfer tool, called Effingo, and bragged that it uses the project to move an average of 1.2 exabytes every day. As explained in a paper [PDF] and video to… Continue reading Need To Move 1.2 Exabytes Across the World Every Day? Just Effingo
Slashdot reader Seven Spirals brings news about the lossless compression algorithm LZ4:
The already wonderful performance of the LZ4 compressor just got better with multi-threaded additions to it’s codebase. In many cases, LZ4 can compress data faster… Continue reading LZ4 Compression Algorithm Gets Multi-Threaded Update
From calling in to meetings from your home office to capturing professional-quality video on the go, these Prime Day deals offer discounts on devices for business. Continue reading Amazon Prime Day 2024: Best Deals on Tech for Work