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Kioxia’s booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its CMOS Bonded Array (CBA) scheme … Read More

Modern cyber threats have grown increasingly sophisticated, posing significant risks to federal agencies and critical infrastructure. According to Deloitte, cybersecurity is the top priority for governments and public sectors, highlighting the need to adapt to an increasingly digital world for efficiency and speed.    Threat examples include insider threats, supply chain vulnerabilities, ransomware attacks, and other … Read More

The NVIDIA AI Summit India, taking place October 23–25 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, will bring together the brightest minds to explore how India is tackling the world’s grand challenges. A major highlight: a fireside chat with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on October 24. He’ll share his insights on AI’s … Read More

The engines switched off, and there it was. Many of the spectators lucky enough to be there jumped up and down with joy, hugged their friends, or let out an ecstatic yell. I snapped a few final photos and returned to his laptop, grinning, speechless, and started wondering how I could put this all into … Read More

Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD’s upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards … Read More

Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space. The lake formed after a cyclone walloped parts of northern Africa in September, causing huge amounts of rain in the Sahara Desert. And now, it’s helping researchers study what the Sahara may have looked like thousands of years ago—perhaps not a jungle, but … Read More

At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs. ACE is a suite of digital human technologies that provide speech, intelligence, and animation powered by generative AI. Developers can also now access a new Audio2Face-3D plugin … Read More

Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity with new generative AI tools and capabilities that were once the stuff of science fiction. And like many of the heroes in science fiction, they’re arriving just in time. AI-enhanced cybersecurity can detect and respond to potential threats in real time — often before human analysts even become aware of … Read More

AT&T enables unlocking of paid-off phones after 60 days for postpaid users and after six months for prepaid users. AT&T lodged similar complaints as T-Mobile, saying in an October 7 filing that the FCC’s proposed rules would “mak[e] handsets less affordable for consumers, especially those in low-income households,” and “exacerbate handset arbitrage, fraud, and trafficking. … Read More

A few years back, the Japanese government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. And at this year’s … Read More