Why do upgradeable laptops fail? Because we fail them
Whose fault is it that the PC industry has never, ever seen an upgradeable laptop design succeed? Ours. Yes, each of us bears the blame for never, ever seeing the laptop blossom […]
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The latest LastPass fail came from a home PC
Good grief, LastPass, could we go a month without hearing about a security failure from you folks? Keeping people’s personal info safe is literally your whole deal. The company’s latest statement on […]
Twitter is broken after API fail
Is Twitter finally hitting the breaking point? Twitter users reported that Twitter’s incoming and outgoing API started failing on Monday morning, breaking many of the site’s core features. The API outage appeared […]
Back it up: Most dead hard drives fail within 3 years
Follow any tech site with regularity and you’ll hear the same refrain over and over—back up your files. The longer you wait, the more you flirt with disaster, and you don’t have […]
Why hard drives fail, and what you can do about it
Mechanical hard drives are sensitive, precise electromechanical devices consisting of a combination of rotating disks and read/write heads floating above them. Despite their complex construction, they have proven themselves worthy as data […]
Intel’s troubled CPUs fail less often than AMD, says PC maker
Intel is having a bad time lately. The biggest scandal of the past few months has been the apparent hardware flaw causing 13th- and 14th-gen desktop CPUs to fail at high rates […]
