Cloud backup bod Backblaze: Failure rates fell for high-cap spinners Just 139 out of 10,000 12TB Seagate drives fail a year, and Western Digital’s HGST brand has an even better rate of 51 in 10,000, according to cloud backup service provider Backblaze, which has 104,778 drives spinning in its data centre.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader shares a report: Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump “to start building their damn computers and things in this country,” Apple is unlikely to bring its manufacturing closer to home. A tiny screw illustrates why. [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled;…

The best way to conform to the EU’s new privacy regulation is to assume that you don’t need to hold on to personal data, versus the opposite. …read more Source:: DarkReading

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There’s a new soap opera that I can’t stop watching. Actually, I wish I could change the channel but this is unfortunately happening in real life. It’s likely the ups and downs of drone sightings would be too far fetched for fiction anyway. If you aren’t British, maybe you will know a little of our…

The move signals a bigger investment by Disney Animation Studios in the burgeoning medium. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: At least one rumored name for this watershed phone would be a big mistake. …read more Source:: CNet