During their last quarterly investors webinar both Seagate Technology and Western Digital focused up their exabytes shipped hard disk drive storage capacity and their revenue and profits. However, they did not provide information that they have done in past quarters that would give investors important operational information such as the number of HDD shipped and particularly the number of high-capacity nearline HDDs shipped. They also did not give information from which the average HDD sales price, ASP could be determined. I think that these are important elements to include in HDD quarterly reporting and that investors should be asking for…
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The project is environmentally sustainable in other ways. More than 95 percent of its electricity comes from offshore wind turbines. Overall, the designers estimate that this reduces energy consumption by 22.8 percent. Huang Dinan, president of Shenergy Group, another of the project’s contractors, noted that the East China Sea offers…
After the Amazon’s huge Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price drop, Samsung and other retailers have launched a raft of new offers and discount codes that slash the price of most of the company’s smartphones.This story was updated on November 1st with a new Samsung voucher code. Last week, Samsung…
US president Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Zhao, widely known as CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions. The plea formed part of a sweeping deal with the US Department of Justice, under which Binance was…
In cannabis media, size used to be the story. Bigger audiences. Louder drops. Flashier strain names. But the center of gravity is shifting. A new tier of creators is training people to judge smoke, not just talk about it. Method, standards and palate become the product. Entertainment is the format.…
Jim Sanborn couldn’t believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for 35 years. As always, wannabe solvers kept on paying him a $50 fee to offer their guesses to the remaining unsolved portion…
If you head over to the Google homepage, you’ll notice the Halloween spirit on full display. Today’s Google Doodle is a spooky take on one of the most famous arcade games: Pac-Man.This is not the first time Google has released a version of Pac-Man as its playable Doodle. In 2010,…
On Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be “a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” and “a necessary step towards…
Following the release of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, which was entirely amazing, we now have the first two games done in the same way, and they’re equally great.The reason for this order of releases is that the third game was actually the first game in the Erdrick Trilogy narrative,…
When the Harris Poll surveyed marketing executives at last week’s ANA Masters of Marketing conference, only 30% said they’d recommend their profession to young people. Meanwhile, 44% suggested electrician careers instead.That divide isn’t about pessimism. It’s about strategy.The conference revealed a widening competitive gap – not between companies using AI…
Then I got my wife the Model S for Christmas. I started driving that around, and I’m like, I kind of like this. I put an order back in for the Cybertruck and I started building the excitement after that.How do you feel about it now?Oh, I love it. Now,…
Last night Ukrainian drone struck Moscow, with one dramatic image showing a mobile air defence outside the Kremlin. There have been several previous drone attacks on the Russian capital, but this is different. Now Russian commanders are marshalling forces to defend the city against a sustained onslaught.It looks like the…
A cryptocurrency promoted in January by US first lady Melania Trump was part of a sophisticated fraud that “leveraged celebrity association and ‘borrowed fame’ to sell legitimacy to unsuspecting investors,” a new legal filing has alleged.In April, crypto investors brought a federal class action lawsuit against Benjamin Chow, cofounder of…
In the world of apparel and style, the term “sustainable fashion” often appears, but what does it really mean, and why does it matter? For the persons referring to this branch of fashion, clarity is non‐negotiable. At its core, according to Lindenwood University, sustainable fashion describes clothing, footwear and accessory…
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