Nine jurors have ordered Marvell to pay Carnegie Mellon University $1,169,140,271 in damages for infringing two hard drive patents. If the ruling sticks on appeal, it would claim more than a year's worth of profits at Marvell, which earned just over $900 million last year and...

University of Texas researchers have announced a new technique that could produce a fivefold increase in hard drive capacity. Led by C. Grant Willson, professor of chemistry, biochemistry and engineering at UT, the team has discovered a way to use self-organizing substances called...