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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Hard Disk Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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A Brief History of the Multi
It's hard to overemphasize how far computers have come and how they have transformed just about ever...
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What Ever Happened to GameSpy?
Today, multiplayer gaming is easy. You hop onto a game, press "play online," and in moments, you're...
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What Ever Happened to Netscape?
Back in the early days, the internet was a much different creature than it is today. To most, it wou...
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Going Hands Free with GM's Super Cruise
It used to be a regular understanding that "going hands-free" in a car, related to sending and recei...
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Explainer: L1 vs. L2 vs. L3 Cache
Every single CPU found in any computer, from a cheap laptop to a million-dollar server, will have so...
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 2: Insane Graphics Card Prices
We're hardly two weeks into 2018 and it's been a wild ride for the tech industry already (CES notwit...
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Why Do Image Files Need Different Formats?
Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an ima...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: April 2022
It's time for our monthly graphics card pricing update and in overly positive news, the trend toward...
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A Surveillance Primer: 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, 14 Eyes
As awareness of global surveillance grows, more people are looking for information about the Five Ey...
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Ryzen 5000 Memory Performance Guide
In this article we'll be searching for Zen 3's memory sweet spot and looking at DDR4 memory performa...