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Western Digital (WD) is about to get some stiff competition from its main rival Seagate. The two companies control the majority of the spinning media market these days, and have been one-upping each other lately when it comes to storage capacity. WD recently took the capacity crown with its new …

Tuned, Meta’s social app for couples, is winding down a little over two years after it launched. Users, including this reporter, began receiving a notification about the impending shutdown last week, advising them to download their data before September 19 when the app will cease to work. “We are so …

The first Google-blessed Android tablet launched in 2011, and now more than a decade later, Google has rediscovered tablet apps. After neglecting large-screen devices for most of the intervening years, the company has announced new, tablet-friendly features in some of its most popular apps.  Google itself is largely responsible for …

Most companies are waiting to see if the metaverse comes to be, but Facebook parent company Meta is trying to get in on the ground floor. Mark Zuckerberg is so sure of the benefits of the metaverse that he changed the name of his company to signal his commitment. Today, …

(Photo: RR Auctions)Over the past year there have been some rare vintage Apple products up on the auction block. Most were semi-complete systems though, and part of the original batch of PCs sold by the Byte Shop in Mountain View. Now the printed circuit board (PCB) made by Steve Jobs …

Nvidia has been tinkering with cloud gaming longer than just about anyone, but its GeForce Now service is often overlooked in the era of Xbox Cloud Gaming and Stadia. If you’ve already got a library of games, GeForce Now could be the best way to stream them, particularly now that …

NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently trundling around the red planet, collecting samples and beaming data back to Earth. NASA plans to launch new missions in the next few years in partnership with the ESA aimed at collecting those samples and returning them to Earth. The agency has just completed a …

At this point we’re all familiar with the global chip shortage. It’s affected every single industry in the world, it seems. Now IBM has come up with a new way to manufacture silicon wafers that it says could ease the strain a bit. It partnered with Tokyo Electron (TEL) on …

Looking at the wearable market today, Apple is way out in the lead with the iconic Apple Watch. It wasn’t always this way, though. Google actually beat Apple to the smartwatch game by more than a year, but lackluster hardware allowed Cupertino to lap everyone else. Google’s wearables might get …

  Kevin Glynn, aka Uncle Webb at TechSpot, has developed several useful freeware utilities like ThrottleStop and RealTemp over the years. In the course of developing those programs he discovered a curious behavior in Windows Defender with Intel CPUs. Windows Defender is the software included with Windows to protect your …