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Western Digital announces high-capacity 12TB, 14TB helium-filled hard drives [feedly]
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Western Digital announces high-capacity 12TB, 14TB helium-filled hard drives
// Extremetech

Western Digital has announced new 12TB, helium-filled hard drives, with a 14TB drive coming in the near future. The company has squeezed an eighth platter into a conventional 3.5-inch form factor, where other conventional drives top out at six.
The post Western Digital announces high-capacity 12TB, 14TB helium-filled hard drives appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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MIT Develops a System for Reading Closed Books [feedly]
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MIT Develops a System for Reading Closed Books
// I4U News

An imaging system that can read closed books is in the making. A prototype of the system was tested and a stack of papers had each letter inside it visible via this system.The top nine sheets were...
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Watching a laser machine gun clean rusty metal is a perfect midweek meditation [feedly]
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Watching a laser machine gun clean rusty metal is a perfect midweek meditation
// The Verge

The internet is full of tips on how to make cleaning fun, but I want more. I want an invention that would make the task nothing but pure joy: house-cleaning lasers. All of the mesmerizing visual effects of a laser light show! None of the backbreaking scrubbing of spring cleaning!
A small step toward my fantasy is available today. The process is called "laser ablation," which is a scientific term for using very focused lasers to remove one material from another. Laser ablation is typically used to clean rust and grime off metal.
The handheld version seen below is made by a Belgian company called P-Laser. As P-Laser engineer Thijs Peeters told Digital Trends, it's basically a laser machine gun that shoots a lot of light bullets. "When the light hits the surface, the dirt layer and any oxides under it absorb the energy and then evaporate or crimp off, leaving no residue," he said.
The laser even creates a calming, ASMR-like sound if you're into that sort of thing — but even if you're not, watching light blast away rust is a thousand times better than going at it yourself with a Brillo pad.
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