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One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The lack of a sufficient number of USB ports and limited onboard storage are two of the major problems faced by many laptop owners, as ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”. Amidst the plethora of patents granted that year, you would’ve been forgiven for not ...

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I REMEMBER WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW, HEY, YOU KNOW, NEW ORLEANS, WE’RE LEARNING A LOT ABOUT THE CITY’S HISTORY RIGHT NOW, AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING. BUT THE ...

Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the ...

It took 162 regular season games played over six months, a wild card round, four division series, and two league championship series to get here, but the World Series is finally upon us. With the Fall ...

Illegal crossings along the US-Mexico border plummeted to a 55-year low in fiscal year 2025 – with the vast majority of unlawful attempts to enter the country taking place during the final months of ...