Google has filled a big hole in its Android system by releasing Files Go!, its mobile file organization and sharing app. Launched in beta last month, the app makes it easier for Android users to free up space, find files, back them up to the cloud, and share them with other smartphones, even offline. It’s […]
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DJI left private keys for SSL, cloud storage in public view and exposed customers
Enlarge / A security researcher says he was trying to play fair with DJI’s bug bounty program. DJI calls him a hacker who exposed customer data. DJI, the Chinese company that manufactures the popular Phantom brand of consumer quadcopter drones, was informed in September that developers had left the private keys for both the “wildcard” […]
Livible Announces Acquisition of Boston’s Fetch Storage, Readies for Years of Disruption to Self-Storage
PRESS RELEASE: Seattle-Based Startup Overcomes Bids from 11 Competitors, Now Has Operations on Both East and West Coasts SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–November 17, 2017– Livible, a leading provider of full service storage and storage technology, today announced the acquisition of Fetch Storage. Founded in 2010, Fetch was the leading provider of full service storage in the Greater […]
MakeSpace, the ‘Cloud Storage for Physical Stuff’ Startup, Swaps Out Its CEO
The company says the departure was “completely amicable.” https://media.wired.com/photos/5a0740ab81f0642e8fbda96a/master/pass/MakeSpace-519975297.jpg Feed: All Latest
New cloud-friendly Lightroom has 1TB of photo storage, same UI across desktop and mobile
Enlarge / Worry-free cloud storage, Adobe claims. (credit: Adobe) At its Adobe MAX conference, Adobe announced a big shake-up for its Lightroom photo processing application. The current Lightroom CC is being renamed to Lightroom Classic CC, and a new product with an old name, Lightroom CC, will take its place. The new Lightroom CC offers […]
Russia will block Facebook if it doesn’t comply with local data storage legislation, says local regulator
Facebook could be banned in Russia if it fails to comply with local legislation on personal data storage, warned the country’s head of Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (“Roskomnadzor”), Alexander Zharov. “The law is mandatory for everyone,” the RIA news agency quoted Zharov as saying. “Either we will [have […]
Dozens of Volkswagen TDIs Missing from Michigan Storage Lot, Resold out of State
– Somewhere, among hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen and Audi vehicles that were bought back by the automaker under terms of the diesel emissions scandal settlement, at least 69 have gone astray. The cars were supposed to have been stored in the parking lot of the abandoned Pontiac Silverdome football stadium in Michigan with thousands […]
Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects
Enlarge / Wind turbines, manufactured by Vestas Wind Systems A/S, operate near farmland in this aerial photo at the Botievo wind farm operated by DTEK Holdings Ltd. in Botievo, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 26, 2016. Photographer: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg via Getty Images (credit: Getty Images) Danish company Vestas Wind Systems is one of the biggest makers […]
WD’s My Book Duo storage box puts 20TB on your desktop
Western Digital has unveiled the 20TB My Book Duo, its highest-capacity storage system yet, and it’s a good example of the pluses and minuses of spinning hard disks compared to SSDs. The system works at either RAID 0, which offers the maximum speed but no backup protection, RAID 1, for full data protection but lower […]
Investors poured millions into a storage network that doesn’t exist
(credit: Wikipedia) A blockchain-based cloud storage technology called Filecoin has already raised $ 52 million from investors. The company is poised to raise millions more on Thursday when it begins selling units of its bitcoin-like cryptocurrency to a larger set of wealthy investors. Filecoin aims to disrupt conventional cloud-based storage platforms from Amazon and others. If it succeeds, the […]