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While overall use of NAND flash is up, Apples consumption waned over the past quarter. At the same time, 3D NAND flash, which offers far greater capacity than todays flash drives, is expected to dominate the future.

Linux coder Linus Torvalds wrote this week about how the SSD in his workstation suddenly stopped working, forcing him to delay work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.

Seagate announced that it has sold more than 1 million drives using a new recording technology that will offer consumers 5TB hard drives next year and possibly 20TB drives by 2020.

Disk storage systems sales generated $7.7B in the second quarter, a 5% decline from the same quarter in 2012, according to IDC.

Flash makers will continue to restrict supplies to keep prices from crashing.

Developers who were able to bypass Dropbox's security by reverse-engineering Python applications -- the language used by the cloud storage provider -- described their technique in a published paper.

By 2020, Nissan will offer self-driving cars in several models created in collaboration with tech teams from the top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo.

While online data storage services claim your data is encrypted, there are no guarantees. And with government surveillance programs crawling the web for metadata and email, there's little doubt online privacy can exist without strong safeguards.

Sales grow by 30% in year ended June 30; Samsung still leads, followed by Toshiba and SK Hynix

Devon IT today said that later this month it will begin shipping its USB memory stick, which plugs into an HDMI monitor or display and allows it to be used as a virtual desktop computer.

Consumer tech giants Sony and Panasonic said they plan to jointly develop a next-generation standard for professional-use optical disks, with the objective of expanding their archive business for long-term digital data storage.