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The trial for Donald Trump gunman Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, is taking a dramatic twist. Prosecutors requested an 'indefinite delay' in the trial as they comb through 'thousands of videos' and '4 million gigabytes' of text and audio files. They also said they've executed 13 search warrants and have seized 'hundreds of items of evidence' including electronic devices. His trial has been set to begin on November 18, but it could be delayed Routh pleaded not guilty to several charges, including attempted assassination of the former president earlier this week. Routh appeared in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida,...

A long-running California lawsuit over whether all megabytes and gigabytes are created equal may have reached its end on Friday. The class action lawsuit against Kodak, Sandisk, Lexar Media, and other memory card makers alleges that the defendants intentionally misrepresented the capacity of their flash memory devices by using decimal definitions, in which a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. The suit says a binary definition is appropriate, meaning that one megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes and that the memory card sizes were overstated by 4 percent to 5 percent. When memory capacity was smaller, the difference didn't mean much. A decimal kilobyte,...

Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days. The company said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, then follow up in the second quarter with 3.5-inch terabyte drives for digital video recorders, bundled with software called Audio-Visual Storage Manager for easier retrieval of data, and corporate storage systems. Hitachi terabyte drives The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a...