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  Taiwanese memory specialist Team Group has introduced a new M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD, designed for mission-critical environments. The   P250Q-M80   SSD offers a headline-grabbing quick access feature that securely wipes all data stored or even physically destroys the   flash NAND   chips, at the touch of a button. BC Award Winner: P250Q M.2 SSD – Secure Erase, Redefined - YouTube Watch On Many industrial storage device makers crow about the ruggedness and durability of their devices, and Team Group is no exception with the P250Q-M80. The device has many great durability stats that you might look for. It boasts MIL-STD 810G vibration endurance, MIL-STD-202G shock resistance, storage integrity temperatures spanning -55°C (-67°F) to +95°C (203°F), an MTBF of over three million hours, a three-year warranty, S.M.A.R.T. health monitoring, and more. However, its party trick is the rapid destruction of its precious data, its so-called “Intelligent Dual-Mode Data De...

  Scientists have warned that a “more contagious” variant of the   Covid   virus, dubbed XEC, is starting to spread more rapidly across   Europe   and could soon become the   dominant strain . “At this juncture, the XEC variant appears to be the most likely one to get legs next,”  Eric Topol , director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, said in a post on X on Sunday. Researchers predicted in August that this  variant  could take a few weeks to a couple of months to take off and  spread more rapidly. “XEC is definitely taking charge,” Dr Topol said. XEC, a sublineage of the  omicron variant , was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite rapidly” across Europe, North America and Asia, according to Covid data analyst Mike Honey. Model of Covid coronavirus  (Getty) Slovenia had high rates of infection with this variant in August as over 10 per cent of Covid case samples from t...