Another consideration to make is whether you can install the drive inside your PC or laptop, or you are willing to give up some performance in favor of the ability to carry the drive with you. Our best storage picks are divided into six categories based on form factor and intended use as presented below. Best High-Performance SSD Seagate FireCuda 530 | WD Black SN850X Price: $119 Best Mainstream SSD Samsung 970 Evo Plus Price: $79 Best Hard Drive Seagate IronWolf Price: $74 Best Portable Storage Samsung T7 Shield Price: $99 Best External Storage WD My Book | WD My Passport Ultra Price: $207 Best Home NAS Synology DS220+ | Synology DS920+ Price: $298...

Think of the Wayback Machine as a virtual time machine. With it, you can travel back into the past and view how websites looked at regular intervals throughout history. This can be immensely useful when performing research or fact checking and equally as amusing when chronicling how web design has evolved over the years. The Wayback Machine had managed to archive two terabytes of data after just one year, which was a massive amount of data at the time....

Apple’s recent iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro releases have piqued the interest of Apple fans and enthusiasts, with the phones boasting improved specs, quality-of-life enhancements, and new features. One feature drawing considerable attention, even outside the fandom, is the “Dynamic Island,” found only on the iPhone 14 Pro models. Rather than having a notch, which has plagued iPhones and many other phones with OLED displays, Apple has taken a new approach with the Pro model....

The Netburst architecture Intel employed with ever-decreasing effect gave way to a major design shift emphasizing low power and less reliance on high clock speeds for performance – a change that many deemed an overreaction to Netburst’s shortcomings. Regardless of the reasoning, Intel scratched plans and turned to its older Pentium Pro/Pentium M CPU architecture to build a successor for the Pentium 4. The initiative resulted in Intel’s Conroe architecture (and every other since)....

With over 200 million copies sold across all platforms, The Sims is one of the most popular series in history, redefining what’s a game and who is a gamer. Alongside four main entries in the series and many spin-off games, the series has become infamous for its world-record number of expansion packs, when those were still sold as physical copies. Yet, videos featuring the endless possibilities offered by the games and their expansions have gained millions of views on YouTube, a phenomenon that even became a reality show....

ASML, the world’s largest supplier of lithography machines used in the chipmaking process, is already prohibited from selling its most advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment, which costs about $164 million per unit, to its Chinese customers as it cannot obtain an export license from the Dutch government due to pressure from the United States. Bloomberg writes that the US government is now pushing ASML to also stop selling its older deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography tools to Chinese clients....

Like its predecessor, The Witcher 2 was developed primarily for PC gamers, though it’s not necessarily exclusive to our beloved platform as an Xbox 360 version is in the works. Nonetheless, while many of this year’s PC games have been half-baked console ports with diluted visuals, we expect CD Projekt’s new arrival to give our test system a well-earned thrashing. We have high hopes for The Witcher 2’s graphical fidelity, though we were surprised and a bit disappointed to learn that it’s strictly a DirectX 9 title....

The opposite case door opens in a more traditional manner as it is secured using a pair of thumb screws at the back of the case before you can slide it off. We had a lot more trouble here as it was almost like the door was glued on. It was impossible to remove by hand as there is nowhere to gain leverage. Therefore I was forced to jimmy it off with a screwdriver, I felt like I was trying to steal someone’s car....

Samsung has just announced that its One UI 4.1 that arrived alongside the Galaxy S22 series will soon be available to a wide range of Galaxy devices via a software update. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 will get it first, before the update lands on the Galaxy S21, S20, and S10 series, the Galaxy Note line from the Note 10+ onwards, unnamed Galaxy A handsets, and all previous foldable phones....

Using a single GTX 980 Ti at 1080p with the high quality preset shows The Division to be a mostly GPU-bound game. I expect that the CPU will become more important in the Dark Zone with other players, but gathering accurate data here is nearly impossible. In any case the game certainly doesn’t look to be hard on the CPU as long as you have four threads to play with....

Moving from high to ultra has a huge impact on performance so we dropped several cards from testing as they couldn’t handle this quality. For an average of 60fps, you’ll want the HD 7870 or GTX 680. We’re not sure if we’ve ever seen those two cards sitting next to each other, so it seems like there’s something that is really hurting Nvidia’s cards (note that TressFX is off). In another first, the HD 7970 GHz Edition tangoed with the GTX Titan, slipping behind a few frames in the average results but doing much better on the minimum fps....

Word can also come in handy for basic graphic design. You can create cover pages, business cards, brochures, and even full-on magazines and e-books for digital publishing. But its wealth of capabilities make it equally good for casual, everyday users. Learning Word’s ins-and-outs can be very rewarding, making you more productive, plus your colleagues will also appreciate a Microsoft Word guru by their side. In this article, we’ve rounded up a few important tips and tricks that will make novice and advanced Word users more effective and efficient at documentation....

Suffice to say, Adobe’s tactics have left some looking for an alternative, and we have a pretty thorough list to check out. Some are free, others are online-only, there are some multiplatform choices and platform exclusive options as well, so take a read-through and try some of these useful photo editing tools. Multiplatform and Web-based GIMP It’s customary to cringe at the name of this multi-platform application, which is an acronym for the “GNU Image Manipulation Program....

TP-Link just announced its new Wi-Fi 7-enabled product lineup, including the Archer series of routers, the Deco lineup of home mesh systems, and even a few access points designed for enterprise use. It’s worth noting that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is still working on the 802.11be standard, which will likely be named Wi-Fi 7 when the final spec lands in 2024. However, that isn’t stopping companies from releasing products based on early drafts....

TSMC recently indicated it won’t grow manufacturing capacity for process nodes older than 28nm. The company will have to convince its clients that are still basing products on 40nm or 65nm to transition to the more expensive 28nm, which will be its primary mature node going forward. Processors in the latest PCs, game consoles, and smartphones utilize the newest, densest, and costliest nodes like 8nm and 7nm. Upcoming devices like AMD’s RDNA 3 GPUs will use 5nm, and TSMC is working on 3nm and 2nm for future products....

This week, Sony published the full details for the PC release of Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection. The title, which arrived on PlayStation 5 in January, includes 2016’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and the standalone expansion, The Lost Legacy. The PC edition will arrive on Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 19 for $49.99. These are the first Uncharted games on PC, with no plans to port the previous three games....

Some went so far as to label the Rift, and VR as a whole, a failure before it even arrives. A month and a half later, HTC said its Vive VR headset would sell for $799 - a full $200 more than the Rift that had everyone up in arms, though packing motion controllers which Oculus will sell later separately. And just this past week, Sony revealed its virtual reality headset, the aptly-named PlayStation VR, would arrive in October for $399....

PCs, phones, and gaming monitors are just some of the many items to see their shipments crash this year as the threat of global recession looms large. Market research firm Canalys’ recent report shows PC shipments in the US were down 13% in Q3 despite attractive promotions. Another analyst, IDC, forecasts similar figures: PC and tablet shipments will be down almost 12% in 2022, with further declines expected next year....

Regardless of how you feel about playing solo or multiplayer, there is no denying that Wolfenstein is a great looking game. Based on a highly modified version of the id Tech 4 engine, the game is able to deliver cutting edge graphics that rival more recently developed engines. The modifications to the engine include depth of field effects, post processing effects, Havok physics, soft shadowing, as well as the addition of a supernatural realm called ‘The Veil’....

Microsoft is removing Xbox 360 games from Games with Gold this fall. The news comes via emails sent out to subscribers over the weekend. The letter notes that Microsoft has “reached the limit of [its] ability to bring Xbox 360 games to the catalog.” Microsoft emphasized that this change will not affect games downloaded by the deadline. Any XB360 games that players redeem before October 1 will remain on their Xbox account, even if they cancel their Xbox Live Gold subscription....