Wednesday wakerife writative

Seagate announced today that it has begun shipping the world's first 8 Terabyte hard drive. 

The 8TB hard drive comes only five months after Western Digital released the first ever 6TB HDD. 

Up until then, Seagate's high capacity HDDs had been shipping only to select enterprise clients.

 The 8TB HDD comes in the 3.5-inch form factor and, according to the manufacturer, features a SATA 6Gbps interface and multi-drive RV tolerance which makes it suitable for data centers. 

It's unclear what technology the drive is based on, or if PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) or low-resistance helium technology was employed.

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Inside the Tohono O’odham Native American Nation in southern Arizona, Border Patrol agents wield deadly force on unarmed Americans with near-impunity.

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Google today released a 64-bit stable version of its Chrome browser for Windows systems. The 64-bit support has been in testing since June, and as of Chrome version 37 it has made it to the mainstream version.

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iPhone rumor season is just days away from becoming iPhone reality season, and a new leak from a usually reliable source appears to confirm some basic details.

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Israel's Iron Dome defense system is well known across the world. This video is proof of its reputation.

In this essay I will try to provide a few tools to make sense of the news from Israel. I acquired these tools as an insider: Between 2006 and the end of 2011 I was a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s two biggest news providers. I have lived in Israel since 1995 and have been reporting on it since 1997.

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Rich People Are Trucking Their Own Water Into Drought-Ridden California

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 Elephant finds a giant elastic ribbon, has the most fun ever

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 how to NOT do the ice bucket challenge

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 The Pyramids are bigger than you think
Look how far down the roadway is...

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Places of interest to stay away from

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Two quakes of the same magnitude, one in China and one in California. CA sustained way less damage because of building codes and China lots of damage because of little or no codes.

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Electric vehicles are on the rise and will soon disrupt the energy cartels

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I usually get up at 4 AM to do this blog. Today my internet was out and I was fortunate to get it back after a few frustrating minutes. So as a result here you have it.

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Oh ya...Burning Man is up and running after the rare rains they finally got in.
http://www.burningman.com/news/