Apple and Google have been taking a lot of heat for their app store policies recently, with developers bristling at the companies’ insistence that apps distributed through their respective stores follow very tight restrictions that many see as anti-competitive. Microsoft, meanwhile, also has an app store. You probably don’t use it very much, and developers have […]
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Lilbits: Google Nest Audio, Xiaomi Mi 10T, Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite, and more
Google announced two new phones, a new media streamer, and a bunch of new software features today. But the company also finally released an update to the Google Home smart speaker that launched almost four years ago. The new Google Nest Audio is a $100 smart speaker that the company says offers louder sound, deeper […]
Western Digital’s new portable SSDs are nearly twice as fast
Western Digital is updating its line of My Passport portable solid state drives with a new set of small, durable, and speedy SSDs capable of read speeds up to 1,050 MB/s and write speeds up to 1,000 MB/s. The new WD My Passport SSDs are available for pre-order for $120 and up. WD plans to […]
Sabrent introduces the first 8TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
PC accessory and component maker Sabrent has just unveiled the first M.2 SSD capable of holding up to 8TB of data. The upcoming Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB drive is a PCIe NVMe SSD designed to fit inside of laptops and other devices with M.2 2280 slots. There’s no word on the price or release date […]
Lilbits 381: Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux, Android, and iOS
Windows has long dominated the desktop and laptop computer space, but Microsoft has all-but given up on getting Windows onto smartphones. So the company has instead shifted its focus in an effort to get you to use its apps and services on your Android, iOS, or even Linux devices. Heck, the company is even planning to […]
WD made an 8TB portable SSD, but you can’t buy it (yet)
Portable SSD prices have fallen in recent years, and you can these days you can pick up a 2TB model for around $270. But an 8TB portable SSD? Right now that’s priceless. Western Digital is unveiling a prototype at the Consumer Electronics Show, but the company hasn’t committed to bringing it to market anytime soon. […]
Intel Optane memory M15 promises faster performance
Intel’s Optane memory solutions are basically a small, speedy SSDs that you can use along with a larger hard drive or solid state drive to boost performance of a PC. The newest version is called Intel Optane Memory M15, and according to Intel it’s faster than the previous-gen M10 SSD, but it also consumes less […]
Intel Optane memory H10 SSDs coming to laptops, mini PCs
Intel’s Optane memory technology is super-speedy… and super expensive. So the first few consumer-oriented Optane solutions the company has offered were 16GB to 64GB SSDs designed to be paired with a separate SSD or hard drive. That’s great if you have a computer with plenty of room for multiple storage devices. But what if there’s […]
Toshiba unveils low-latency 3D XL-Flash storage to take on Intel Optane
Intel’s Optane memory is a new type of solid state storage that offers high speeds… and which also comes at a high cost compared to NAND Flash SSDs. So competitors including Samsung and Toshiba figure there’s room to compete by introducing new types of NAND-based storage solutions that are offer high performance by NAND standards, […]
Lilbits 324: Samsung’s 4TB consumer SSDs are coming
Solid state drives are faster, more energy efficient, and harder to break than hard drives. But they also tend to be more expensive and come in smaller capacities. So while it’s not unusual to see laptop and desktop computers ship with 1TB or larger hard drives, models with SSDs often have just 256GB of storage […]