Western Digital’s New Hard Drives Are Filled With Helium

Western Digital's New Hard Drives Are Filled With Helium

Digital storage is always getting cheaper and more capacious—but Western Digital has a plan to fill it with helium to make hard drives way more efficient than ever before.

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iPad Air Teardown: Glorious Guts, But So Much Glue

iPad Air Teardown: Glorious Guts, But So Much Glue

We know it’s light, fast and beautiful already, but we still haven’t seen inside Apple’s new iPad Air. Fortunately, iFixit has had the good grace to rip the thing apart.

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How a Simple Circuit Breakthrough Could Double Your Bandwidth

How a Simple Circuit Breakthrough Could Double Your Bandwidth

As we all desperately claw after more bandwidth to sate our unquenchable thirst for data, there may yet be an oddly affordable solution; a simple piece of circuitry and software that can double bandwidth in the blink of an eye.

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Intel Is About to Start Making ARM Chips

Intel Is About to Start Making ARM Chips

It at first you don’t succeed, join forces with people that do things better than you. At least, that’s what Intel is doing, as it starts producing ARM chips at its fabrication plants.

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Just a Couple of Guys Performing Camera Surgery in a Glass Box

Amongst the typical trade-show demo stations and displays at this year’s Photoplus convention in NYC, Sony decided to show off its camera repair process with two dudes poking at DSLRs in a glowing white cube.

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Anki Drive Connected Toy Car Teardown Reveals Predictably Adorable Guts

Anki Drive Connected Toy Car Teardown Reveals Predictably Adorable Guts

Back at WWDC, Apple invited the robotics company Anki on to the stage to show off its connected toy car game, Drive, in which physical toy cars sail around a track while you control them with your iOS device. It was seriously impressive. iFixit got their hands on an Anki Drive set, and like spoiled children, set about dismantling their new toys.

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Surface Pro 2 Teardown: New Guts, But Still a Nightmare to Repair

Surface Pro 2 Teardown: New Guts, But Still a Nightmare to Repair

Microsoft’s second attempt at the Surface Pro has brought plenty of improvements, even if is still on shaky ground. But tearing the thing apart reveals that its shortcomings still extend to its engineering, too.

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4K, 12-Inch Tablet Screens Are on Their Way

4K, 12-Inch Tablet Screens Are on Their Way

If the iPad Mini’s new Retina display isn’t enough for you, how d’you fancy a 4K, 12-inch tablet display instead, hmm?

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Scientists Have Created a Disk That Can Store Data for a Million Years

Scientists Have Created a Disk That Can Store Data for a Million Years

Magnetic disk drive storage was born in the 1950s—thanks, IBM!—but while storage density and power efficiency have rocketed, the lifetime for which data can be stored has remained about the same, at around a decade. That could soon change.

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Here’s Why the iPhone 5S Accelerometer Is So Screwed Up

Here's Why the iPhone 5S Accelerometer Is So Screwed Up

A few weeks ago we confirmed reports that the iPhone 5S motion sensors were embarrassingly off. Some enterprising devs have investigated the problem, and figured out that at its root, it’s indeed a hardware design issue that Apple either overlooked or ignored. The good news is that there’s a fix coming—but not from Apple.

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