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The first USB-connected LTO-9 tape drive has been presented by Japanese tape drive manufacturer Unitex.UNITEX USB LTO-9 drive has a native capacity of 18TB on one tape and transfer rates of up to 300MBps, significantly more than any cloud backup or cloud storage solution could possibly attain. As long as you use the right adapters, the USB…

Is your phone storage running out of space? Don't worry, you won't have to spend a lot of time doing this. Smartphone companies provide devices with storage capacities of 64 GB or 128 GB as standard, but users quickly run out of space due to an increase in app consumption over the years. It's hardly surprising that many people have thousands of…

A Chinese lab claims to have made a significant advancement in 6G mobile technology as the country prepares to showcase its 5G technology at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games.The Lab has achieved a record wireless transmission speeds of 206.25 gbps. This is a global record for real-time wireless transmission, according to the South China…

Intel Core i9-12900KS was announced by the company at CES 2022. The 12th Gen Intel Core ‘Alder Lake' CPU delivers a 5.5GHz boost clock speed on a single core.The new Intel Core i9-12900KS is also capable of running at 5.2GHz on all cores when executing demanding multi-core activities, according to the manufacturer. Since the Core i9-9900KS…

For the first time since it was discovered in 1881, the mummy of famous Pharaoh Amenhotep I has been "digitally unwrapped," revealing its secrets for the first time.Advanced 3D imaging has let researchers discover new mummification procedures that stretch back more than 1,500 years to the reign of the Pharaoh.Sahar Saleem, a radiology…

We've all had the same problem: trying to transmit a large file to someone but not being able to figure out how to do so because it's too huge. The sentence "Oh, send me via Wetransfer" is sent to you by a coworker or project partner. We've found a solution. In the end, what is WeTransfer, and how does it actually function? That's all we'll…

NASA's most powerful telescope blasted off into orbit on Saturday, heading to an outpost 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) away from Earth after repeated delays due to technical issues. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope lifted out from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana on Sunday.One month is the…

On Wednesday, China's state-run Xinhua news agency announced a first-of-its-kind digital media photo collection that will be distributed using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are based on the blockchain technology that Beijing has previously criticized.NFTs, digital ownership certificates, have become increasingly popular throughout the…

There is nothing you can do to stop TikTok.Video-based social media app Tiktok is the most popular site in 2021, taking out Google, according to a new tech report.According to data from web security company Cloudflare, TikTok has already surpassed the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix in 2020.Cloudflare…

This week, the Oxford Union added an artificial intelligence engine to its prestigious roster of speakers.The AI argued that the only way to stop such tech becoming too powerful is to have "no AI at all".But it also argued the best option could be to embed it "into our brains as a conscious AI".The experiment was designed to ignite…