Flash memory is playing an increasing role to accelerate enterprise and hyperscale application, particularly in virtual machine environments, recent announcements by storage device and systems from SanDisk, Tegile, Oracle and Primary Data around the VMWorld conference make clear. At the same time a move to acquire SanDisk could provide a significant boost to either Seagate or Western Digital and may also signal a new stage of consolidation in the flash memory industry.

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Hideo Kojiima’s final Metal Gear Solid game is finally upon us, and rest assured: it is a tremendous game. It is weird, confusing, and frequently stupid in all of the ways that the Metal Gear series is wont to be, but in the meantime, it just might be the finest stealth game I’ve ever played. In addition to being dense, engaging, and surprising, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is also big, sprawling, and complicated, and it can be a little intimidating when the game is still throwing new systems at you 10 hours in. But it didn’t be! Here are a few tips to get started on your path to being the most legendary soldier in history:

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OK, it’s not really a spoon: it’s a bit of rock that has weathered out from the surrounding landscape, imaged by the Mars Curiosity rover. But the resemblance to a spoon is uncanny, both in the thinness of the “handle” and the bowl-like end. You can see it’s an actual outcrop by the shadow. This is no “woman on Mars”: it’s a real feature, not a shadow or a trick of the eye.

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Google has a new logo, but its purpose goes far beyond a new design. It’s a gateway into today’s reality in which people use multiple digital devices throughout the day.

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More of your employees are working remotely. They’re taking work home with them. They even manage to be productive when visiting client sites or commuting to work by bus or train. Today, a full 40% of U.S. employees no longer do the majority of their work in traditional office settings, with 55% of them saying they have to be mobile at least part of the time to do their jobs.

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In rather unsurprising news, it looks as though Apple is one step closer to its determined quest to dominate the global media landscape: Variety’s Andrew Wallenstein reports that the technology giant is preparing to make its original programming aspirations a reality.

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