Gadgetory

amazon's cloud service expands and how a ten terabyte drive may be coming sooner than you think I'm Jeff Bakalar in once again for Bridget Carey this is your seen it up there amazon has just blown out its cloud storage solution for its customers by offering new super cheap plans to new unlimited data packages have just rolled out 14 photos and one for any kind of data the new unlimited photos plan will go for twelve dollars a year and let users store an unlimited amount of image files in their cloud though you do get five gigs for anything you want as well and for sixty dollars a year there's the unlimited everything plan which you guessed it will let users upload and store anything they want now if you're already an Amazon Prime subscriber you have the unlimited photos plan baked in but there's no discount on the unlimited plan for anyone the crowd-sourced ride-hailing service lift will soon let passengers and drivers share more about themselves through the introduction of user profiles lift has been built around the notion of a friendly warm and fuzzy sociable attitude and now you'll be able to learn a little more about your driver and or passenger before the actual ride these profiles will share our users hometown their musical tastes and a brief bio and it'll also highlight any Facebook connections between the two parties there's some pretty impressive tech coming to the world of solid-state storage intel along with micron and toshiba announced plans to start producing flash chips that could mean 3.5 terabyte drives the size of a stick of gum now imagine that in your laptop your tablet or even your phone so the technology is called 3d NAND and it's a vertical spin on traditional NAND architecture basically memory cells are now being stacked on top of each other kind of like floors in a skyscraper to fit more data in the same form factor as the technology progresses it's only going to become more cheaper and more efficient and it won't be long until we see something maybe the size of 10 terabytes in a laptop that's a lot of gifts you guys and finally Apple CEO and now good guy Tim Cook seen here half smiling is joining the growing list of tech movers and shakers who are generously donating to charity which is a charge led by Bill and Melinda Gates cook plans to give away most of his estimated seven hundred and eighty five million dollar fortune after he pays for his nephews college this seems to contradict cooks predecessor Steve Jobs when it comes to public giving though there are reports that job secretly gave away millions during his lifetime okay that's it for me that's your tech news update be sure to follow me on Twitter and you can stay updated with the latest at cnet com from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff back alone