Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Your favorite technology products could be about to get more expensive – here's why

I'm no economist and my financial acumen is, as my partner would tell you, suspect. But I fundamentally understand one thing: if you charge companies more to make or ship products, they will not eat those extra costs and will instead serve them to you like so much overcooked gruel.

With Former President Donald Trump now officially President-Elect in the US and set to take office on January 20th, he will surely fulfill a key campaign promise: import tariffs of between 12% and 60%. On the bleeding edge is China, which is expected to suffer through the most draconian 60% tariff structure.

There are no precise numbers of how much technology is produced in China and other countries, but it is a fact that most of the gadgets you love and use are not made in the United States.

Amazon, for instance, reportedly makes most of its Fire and Kindle products in China. Apple produces most of its iPhones in China but has been moving some manufacturing of it and other Apple gear to India and Vietnam. Similarly, Google manufactures Pixels and other devices in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and India. Lenovo produces most of its laptops in China.

The hard truth

I have no issue with products being produced wherever it's most efficient and cost-effective. I know labor is cheaper and the proximity to components is better outside the US.

It's also likely that regulations are somewhat more lenient in, for instance, China and Vietnam, though American companies have in recent years tried forcing their Chinese counterparts to conform to US manufacturing standards for things like safety. I want everyone to be safe at work and to be paid a fair living wage but also appreciate tech gear I can still afford. It would be fantastic if we could have both, but that might be unrealistic.

The goal of tariffs is to fix trade distortions. The US does have a trade deficit. On election day in the US, the Census Bureau released its U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report for September 2024 (PDF). The key headline was that the trade deficit rose $13.6b to a total of $84.4b.

Another tariff goal is to prompt companies to shift manufacturing back to the US, which, according to the Brooking's Institute is well behind China, where manufacturing accounts for 27% of the country's output, compared to just 12% in the US. And it's widely known that the majority of tech production, including semiconductors, still happens outside the US.

Tariffs don't do what you think they do

Tariffs seem unlikely to change that equation any time soon. In fact, Tariff's have a history of having the opposite of their intended effect. According to the Cato Institute:

"Recent empirical evidence indicates the new US tariffs imposed in 2018 and 2019 were almost entirely passed on to US consumers, resulting in higher prices and reduced export growth."

To repeat, Tariffs imposed on companies are passed along to us and that means they appear in the form of higher prices for the tech products we buy every day. The Cato Institute adds, by the way, that Tariffs lead to increased protectionism (shielding us from unwanted foreign competition) and corruption.

It's possible that the tech giants will go another way and accelerate plans – if they have them – to move manufacturing to the US. Of course, that act could involve increased costs just for building out the infrastructure and paying US workers higher wages for the same work they get from Chinese employees at a fraction of the cost.

Do we have a plan?

I've asked Google, Amazon, Lenovo, and Apple how they plan to handle these potential tariffs. Would they just eat the extra cost or pass it along to consumers? Amazon had no comment. As of this writing, the others have yet to respond.

I doubt they'd eat the costs of tariffs but do not expect any of them to willingly admit that prices are about to rise for, say, your next iPhone, future laptop, or new Kindle.

If these tariffs happen early next year, though, the costs will have to go somewhere. Even if it forces companies to move manufacturing back to the US in the long run, the short-term net of it all is higher costs for tech companies and more expensive tech gear for consumers.

On the bright side, we have a Black Friday straight ahead of us. It might make sense to stock up on those gadgets now.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

This could be the date when Google launches Android 16 – and here's what's coming


  • An earlier launch for Android 16 was previously confirmed
  • Now we may have an exact date: June 3
  • The OS will be ready in plenty of time for the Pixel 10

We've recently heard rumors that Android 16 is going to be launching earlier in 2025 than we might have expected – and now a new leak goes further, putting an exact date on when Android 16 is going to launch.

This comes from sources speaking to Android Headlines, and the date in question is June 3, 2025 (a Tuesday). That fits in with what was previously rumored about the operating system making its debut in the second quarter of 2025 (April through June).

As you may have noticed, the rollout of Android 15 has been a bit disjointed. After being previewed in May, the core codebase was finalized in September, but it didn't start appearing on Pixel phones until the middle of October.

That meant the Google Pixel 9 series originally launched in August with Android 14 on board. Bringing Android 16 further forward in the year should mean it's fully finished and bug-free – in theory – by the time the Pixel 10 shows up.

What we know so far

Three Samsung Galaxy S24 phones next to each other on a table

The Galaxy S24 series will get Android 16 in the form of One UI 8 from Samsung (Image credit: Samsung)

June is still a good seven months away, but we've already got some idea about what Android 16 is going to bring with it – mostly through snippets of code in development that have been spotted hidden away in Android.

We're expecting to see an upgrade to the Do Not Disturb functionality, giving you additional control over how you can and can't be interrupted. Floating bubbles might also be more widely used for notifications on screen.

Another rumor has pointed to easier access to Android's highest level of security protection, via the Quick Settings panel. There's also been talk that Android 16 could change up the way you access Quick Settings too.

On top of that, we might see Android 16 mimic the iPhone's Dynamic Island for ongoing notifications, at least to some extent. Of course, there's no guarantee that all these developing ideas will make it into Android 16 – we'll have to wait and see.

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Monday, November 4, 2024

This Cooler Master shark-shaped gaming PC case is the coolest thing we’ve seen all week, but it’ll cost you

Back during CES 2023, Cooler Master unveiled a gorgeous – and unbelievably expensive – gaming PC that’s shaped like a shark. But now, if you’d rather buy just the case without all the components and innards, the manufacturer is happy to oblige.

The original Shark X PC was priced at nearly $7,000 and equipped with an Intel Core i7-14700F processor, an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card, 64GB DDR5 RAM, and 2TB of M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage. But while the case itself is $2,700 less than the full PC, it’s only available in Japan in the Yodobashi Akiba store right now for an eyewatering 658,000 yen, or around $4,300.

While this is certainly an expensive PC or even case to own, it’s definitely eye-catching and makes for a stunning centerpiece in one’s living room. It would be a rare centerpiece as well since most gamers would be rightfully priced out of nabbing one for themselves. And if you only want the case, you still have to import it from Japan since there haven’t been any talks of a global release.

Cooler Master is the kind of the beautiful yet impractical

This isn’t Cooler Master’s only foray into the wacky and unique world of PC cases. In 2023, it revealed Sneaker X, which was a gaming PC shaped like a sneaker. It can accommodate components like ITX form factor motherboards, SFX PSUs, 3-slot GPUs, and up to 64GB of RAM while also equipped with liquid cooling.

During Computex 2024, Cooler Master had an interesting gaming PC with an RGB turntable displaying an action figure – a figure of X-Men's Wolverine to be precise. Of course, this display is a bit impractical since the turntable replaces one of the bottom air intake fans, meaning that the PC will be running slightly hotter. But the price of beauty is always a little steep, right?

At the very least, these designs are extremely entertaining and certainly buck the trend of the boring and dreaded ‘gamer aesthetic’ that plagues many of the best gaming PCs on the market. I understand the need for practicality as the performance demands of high-end gaming can be tough, but it would be nice to get more variety in the case color at least.

Regardless, I look forward to seeing what cool and impractical designs Cooler Master introduces next during CES 2025 and beyond. Or maybe we’ll even see something like the ​​ Motion 1 again, which was a chair that uses haptic technology to swing you around while you game. Kind of like those chairs you see in 4D cinemas, but in your living room for some reason.

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Google shows off AI tool for reading handwritten text by rewriting it digitally

Google Research is showing off a new way to use AI to read handwriting that might radically change how machines convert what you put on paper into digital letters. The InkSight system transforms photos of handwritten words into digital text by leveraging AI without the need for any devices as intermediaries.

The idea is to replace the sometimes fallible optical character recognition (OCR) with AI that can emulate how humans actually learn to read, specifically by rewriting existing text to learn what whole words look like and mean. Doing so required the researchers to tutor the AI in both recognizing and mimicking handwriting by humans.

"Digital note-taking is gaining popularity, offering a durable, editable, and easily indexable way of storing notes in the vectorized form, known as digital ink. However, a substantial gap remains between this way of note-taking and traditional pen-and-paper note-taking, a practice still favored by a vast majority," the researchers explain in their paper. "Our approach combines reading and writing priors, allowing training a model in the absence of large amounts of paired samples, which are difficult to obtain. To our knowledge, this is the first work that effectively derenders handwritten text in arbitrary photos with diverse visual characteristics and backgrounds."

InkSight is more than just an alternative technique. It makes for more accurate results in circumstances that aren't ideal. For instance, if the photo is taken in dim light, has partially obscured text, or is on a confusing background when examined with OCR. The researchers found that humans could read 87% of the InkSight-made tracings of text. Two-thirds were good enough that people couldn't tell them from actual handwriting; you can see below how it looks when InkSight works.

Google InkSight

(Image credit: Google)

Penned by AI

If you like writing things by hand, InkSight has some potential benefits. Imagine writing by hand in a paper notebook, then showing the notes to your camera to instantly make them searchable and organize them in context with previous notes on physical pages. If you're like me and have particularly messy handwriting, InkSight could help turn your chicken scratch into typewritten text that is still accurate to what you scribble.

On a bigger scale, this could be a crucial tool for deciphering and converting handwritten text from across the centuries into digital form. Even when the text is in a language without much of a digital presence, InkSight could help preserve handwriting to help build up training sources for those languages.

Google isn't the only place where AI tools to decipher handwriting are underway. For example, Amazon's new Kindle Scribe upgrades the e-reader's ability to transform handwritten notes into legible text. There's also Goodnotes, a digital notetaking app that can read handwriting, and recently debuted handwriting editing tools using its Goodnotes Smart Ink technology to turn handwriting into typed text. The added tools let you edit handwritten notes as if they were typed, including aligning notes, copying and pasting, and reflowing the text to make it more logical.

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LastPass warns users not to fall for fake customer service scam

One of the most popular password managers out there, LastPass, is warning its customers not to fall for the latest scam campaign aimed directly at them.

In a blog post, the company explained scammers are targeting users via the Chrome Web Store. In the reviews section for LastPass’ Chrome add-on, the scammers are adding new content that directs the visitors to fake customer support.

Therefore, when victims who are having issues with the add-on visit the page, they might think that other users are helping them reach customer support directly. In reality, dialing the number shared there starts a conversation with the fraudsters, who will try to navigate the victims to a malicious website, and download malware.

Fake customer support

"Individuals calling this fake support number will be greeted by an individual asking what product they are having issues with and then a series of questions regarding whether they are attempting to access LastPass via a computer or a mobile device and what operating system they are using," explained LastPass.

"They will then be directed to the site dghelp[.]top while the threat actor remains on the line and attempts to get the potential victim to engage with the site, exposing their data."

Investigating further, BleepingComputer found the campaign’s goal is to get people to download ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a piece of remote support and access software that grants the attackers full access to the target computer. The publication also found that the phone number associated with this campaign was used in other similar campaigns, where crooks impersonated Amazon, Adobe, Facebook, YouTube TV, and many, many others. In other words, this is a well-organized team that has been impersonating major corporations and defrauding people for a while now.

As usual, the best way to defend against these attacks is to use common sense and double-check every piece of information found online.

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This hardened SSD could one day power space data centers and low-orbit CDNs — Seagate transports 2TB SSD to the ISS with AI workflows on the agenda

Seagate and BAE Systems have tested the first high-capacity data storage solution designed for use in space.

The hardened SSD was evaluated aboard the International Space Station as part of a mission aimed at improving data storage for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, addressing challenges such as heat dissipation, unpressurized environments, and the absence of conventional cooling.

This technology could ultimately expand CDNs and support AI-driven applications in space. By adding storage to satellite infrastructures, AI inferencing and real-time analysis could reach previously inaccessible regions, providing last-mile connectivity where fiber or cell networks are absent.

Drives in space

Seagate’s “Space Drive” was part of a broader payload by BAE Systems which included Linux-based software for real-time data processing.

This software enables containerized applications that can be updated in orbit, adapting to the evolving demands of space-based systems.

Additionally, the payload contained a radio frequency sounder and dual-band short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) camera for enhancing atmospheric measurement capabilities, hurricane modeling, and weather forecasting.

“Our team was able to assemble, integrate, and test this payload in just eight months,” Steve Smith, vice president of engineering, science and analysis for BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems told Aerospace Manufacturing.

The 2TB Seagate SSD with PCIe Gen3 x4 connectivity, which you can see in the “Terrestrial Demo Unit” photo below, and which Seagate plans to sell in 2025, has been specially designed to withstand the harsh conditions of space. Delivered to the ISS via a NASA resupply mission and assembled by the astronauts onboard, the device using the Seagate SSDs achieved impressive speeds of over 2Gbps.

Set for one year, the mission will conclude with the payload’s return to Earth for analysis. Engineers from BAE Systems and Seagate will examine the effects of space exposure on the SSD's performance and durability and use this data to refine future designs, advancing resilient storage solutions for space-based applications.

Space Drive customer development unit that Seagate plans to sell in 2025

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Sunday, November 3, 2024

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, November 4 (game #246)

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #246) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is… In a(n) ...

NYT Strands today (game #246) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

  • TOES
  • DIAL
  • FAIL
  • TIME
  • STAIN
  • TOLL

NYT Strands today (game #246) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

It won't take long!

NYT Strands today (game #246) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First: top, 3rd column

Last: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #246) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 246 on a blue background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #246, are…

  • TICK
  • MINUTE
  • JIFFY
  • FLASH
  • MOMENT
  • SECOND
  • MOMENT
  • INSTANT
  • SPANGRAM: SMALLTIME

  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

The subtitle to this Strands puzzle could easily be "Words you use when you tell someone you're going to do something immediately but really you're just going to finish scrolling through social media/complete this video game boss fight/watch the end of this episode/fail to raise yourself off the couch". Or at least that's my experience, because I am always telling people – mainly my other half – that I will get that washing up done in a SECOND, or walk the dog in a MOMENT, when really it's more a long or at least medium amount of time, rather than SMALLTIME as the spangram would have it.

None of that made this game any harder to solve – it's a pretty simple one – but playing it did delay the household chores I was supposed to be doing in a JIFFY, so it was at least apt.

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Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday, 3 November, game #245)

  • CLASS
  • PHYLUM
  • ORDER
  • FAMILY
  • SPECIES
  • GENUS
  • DOMAIN
  • SPANGRAM: TAXONOMY

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.



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You can now search through your chat history with ChatGPT on the web

ChatGPT conversations can accumulate quickly if you regularly converse with the AI chatbot. Finding a particular bit of discussion with ChatGPT has been difficult, though, even with well-labeled thread names. OpenAI has released a new search feature for ChatGPT to address that issue. The feature lets you sift through past conversations by looking for specific terms, making it much easier to find bits you don't totally remember or pull up old threads without having to dive deep into the list of threads.

The chat search tool (which should not be confused with the new ChatGPT search feature) is only available to those subscribing to ChatGPT Plus or Teams for now, though free users are supposed to be able to use it starting next month. To use the search tool, you just need to click on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the ChatGPT sidebar. Write in the word or phrase you want to find, and the AI chatbot will sort through your history to locate specific messages. If you have particularly long chat threads, that could save you a lot of time.

ChatGPT search, not SearchGPT

And while OpenAI didn't explicitly call it out, it would be logical for the search tool to learn from your interactions the way it does from your conversations. That might mean getting better at knowing the kind of conversation history you are likely to search for and maybe filtering the results.

The search feature isn't exactly earth-shattering, but it does at least bring ChatGPT to parity with some of its rivals like Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. It fits with some of the other quality-of-life improvements to ChatGPT, including a better chat interface, autocomplete suggestions, and using “/” to immediately command ChatGPT to search online or generate images.

It's been a busy week for OpenAI. Not content with launching Advanced Voice mode on its desktops apps it also released ChatGPT search, for searching the web like a search engine. OpenAI executives then popped into Reddit for an AMA (ask me anything).

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Kill two birds with one stone — recycled polystyrene material that looks like bird feather could be used to generate electricity from waste energy in air

Over 27 million tons of single-use polystyrene packaging are produced worldwide each year, yet only 12% is recycled - most ends up in landfills after its initial use.

Researchers at RMIT University and Riga Technical University have developed an innovative way to generate electricity using waste polystyrene, addressing both energy needs and the environmental impact of the ubiquitous packaging material.

The invention repurposes discarded polystyrene into a device that generates static electricity from motion, such as wind or airflow. The device is a thin patch, made from multiple layers of polystyrene, each around "one-tenth the thickness of a human hair," according to lead researcher Dr. Peter Sherrell, who went on to explain, “We can produce this static electricity just from air blowing on the surface of our clever patches, then harvest that energy.”

Producing electricity consistently

The patch, which can capture turbulent airflow from air conditioning units, could reduce energy demand by up to 5% and lower the carbon footprint of these systems. Tests show the device can reach up to 230 volts, comparable to household voltage but at a lower power level.

Sherrell noted, “The biggest numbers come from a compression and separation, where you've got faster speeds and bigger motion, while smaller motion generates less energy. This means that in addition to air conditioners, integrating our patches in high traffic areas such as underground walkways could supplement local energy supply without creating additional demand on the grid."

The device’s longevity stems from the same properties that make polystyrene slow to decompose. “The great thing here is the same reason that it takes 500 years for polystyrene to break down in landfill makes these devices really stable – and able to keep making electricity for a long time,” Sherrell said.

This process involves learning how to modify plastics to optimize their energy-generating potential: “We've studied which plastic generates more energy and how when you structure it differently – make it rough, make it smooth, make it really thin, make it really fat – how that changes all this charging phenomenon.”

This static electricity generation project is part of the team’s ongoing research into triboelectric nanogenerators, as published in Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research. RMIT has filed a provisional patent for its device and is now looking for industry partners to help develop the technology for commercial applications.

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Saturday, November 2, 2024

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Sunday, November 3 (game #511)

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #511) - today's words

NYT Connections hints for game 511 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are…

  • STREET
  • SENSE
  • MOVING
  • MONEY
  • TENDER
  • FEELING
  • HEARING
  • LISTENING
  • PROCEEDING
  • TOUCHING
  • CHAIR
  • INQUIRY
  • SWEET
  • HUNCH
  • TRIAL
  • IMPRESSION

NYT Connections today (game #511) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • Yellow: Awwww
  • Green: I think this might happen
  • Blue: All rise
  • Purple: [Not hard] blank

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #511) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: HEARTWARMING
  • GREEN: SNEAKING SUSPICION
  • BLUE: LEGAL SESSION
  • PURPLE: EASY ___

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #511) - the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 511 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #511, are…

  • YELLOW: HEARTWARMING MOVING, SWEET, TENDER, TOUCHING
  • GREEN: SNEAKING SUSPICION FEELING, HUNCH, IMPRESSION, SENSE
  • BLUE: LEGAL SESSION HEARING, INQUIRY, PROCEEDING, TRIAL
  • PURPLE: EASY ___ CHAIR, LISTENING, MONEY, STREET

  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

Is it just me or are the difficulty levels in Connections all over the place? There are days on which the easiest yellow group is harder than the supposedly hardest purple group today. This really was a simple one: yellow (HEARTWARMING) and green (SNEAKING SUSPICION) are merely synonyms, blue (LEGAL SESSION) is an obvious connection and though purple is a more complex 'Blank something' type, it was not a tricky one particularly. What's more, you won't even have needed to solve it if you got the other three.

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 2 November, game #510)

  • YELLOW: SEEN IN A KITCHEN COUNTER, FRIDGE, RANGE, SINK
  • GREEN: GROUP OF ADVISORS BOARD, CABINET, COUNCIL, PANEL
  • BLUE: CORE EXERCISES BOAT, CRUNCH, MOUNTAIN CLIMBER, PLANK
  • PURPLE: KINDS OF EARRINGS CHANDELIER, DROP, HOOP, STUD

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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This new backup solution natively supports Copilot+ ARM-based Windows devices

Macrium, a leading provider of backup, disaster recovery, and imaging software, has unveiled its latest product, Reflect X, designed to support Copilot+ ARM-based Windows devices with native bare metal recovery and boot menu recovery options.

The company says Reflect X can be a reliable backup and recovery solution, particularly for businesses that rely on ARM-based devices in their critical infrastructure.

Macrium claims Reflect X restores images up to five times faster than its predecessor thanks to changes in compression technique and backup optimization of multithreading processes allowing the system to achieve top performance, thereby reducing the time needed for backups and recovery.

Reflect X promises to tackle downtime challenges

As businesses become increasingly dependent on digital infrastructure, the ability to quickly recover from system failures or cyberattacks is more important than ever. Disruptions caused by hardware issues or data breaches can result in significant financial losses and operational setbacks.

Many businesses, particularly those in the OEM, manufacturing, and energy sectors, face the constant risk of hardware failure which leads to loss of data and finance. For these businesses, fast recovery is essential to avoid prolonged downtime.

Reflect X's rapid recovery times offer a solution, allowing companies to restore operations quickly and meet their Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

In addition to performance improvements, Macrium has introduced a new approach to file accessibility by making backup files created with Reflect X open source. Macrium's singular focus on backup, recovery, and image deployment has allowed the company to dedicate all its resources to perfecting these solutions. Unlike companies that offer a one-size-fits-all approach to cyber resilience, Macrium specialises in providing best-in-class tools for each element of an organisation’s security strategy.

"Reflect X has been designed and developed around the needs of businesses, with an increased focus on metrics that matter most, such as Recovery Time Objective, and Recovery Point Objective. As well as enabling businesses to better protect their data, whilst minimising downtime in increasingly complex IT and OT environments,” said Dave Joyce, CEO at Macrium.

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Your favorite technology products could be about to get more expensive – here's why

I'm no economist and my financial acumen is, as my partner would tell you, suspect. But I fundamentally understand one thing: if you ch...