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At the end of this month, February, Buffalo is set to release the new HD-GDU3 series of hard disk drives in 1, 2, and 3 terabyte sizes. Not big news until you look at the copy speed. These nifty drives with DRAM cache are set to push copy speeds over USB 3.0 to 2.3 times faster for Windows users while Mac users will see an increase of 1.6 times over the competition. At a transfer speed of 408.1mb per second, that should let you copy 1,000 digital photos in a mere 3.5 seconds.
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Astronomers are completely confident that the 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 is not going to hit us, passing “only” at 17,200 miles from Earth—the closest encounter with an asteroid ever predicted. It’s a close call, but we will be safe. But then again, a meteorite just exploded in Russia. So what would really happen if their calculations are wrong? More »

In a sudden joining of former leaders in the mobile browser arena that have seen their fortunes turn, Opera announced tonight that it has acquired Skyfire for about $155 million in cash and stock. According to the press release, Opera believes one of the things the two can help each other with is its WebPass program that provides short-term mobile data, by further optimizing user’s data requirements. Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck will become an executive vice president at Opera and oversee joint offerings for the two, as well as remain CEO of Skyfire as an independent but wholly-owned subsidiary of Opera.

If you’re still using Skyfire don’t expect it to go away anytime soon, as the two indicate its browser will continue to be developed and supported. The company says three large US mobile operators are already customers for its Rocket Optimizer tech, meant to speed up all manner of data even as mobile connections have gone from dial-up to broadband speeds. Opera claims its advertising chops can help the Skyfire Horizon mobile browser and toolbar applications as well. The deal is expected to close before mid-March, and the two will be taking meetings at MWC 2013 later this month to show mobile operators how much better they are together.

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