PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Researchers Think They Figured Out How to Squeeze 500TB on a DVD-Sized Disk
By switching from red lasers to blue lasers with a finer beam, the storage capacity of DVDs went from 4.7GB to 25GB to allow Blu-ray discs to hold movies encoded in HD resolutions and beyond. Last week, researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK revealed the next big breakthrough in disc storage capacities,…
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Tip Jars May Be Coming to TikTok
TikTok wants to make it easier for its creators to earn money for their videos — many of which undoubtedly require a lot of time and effort — so it’s testing out a popular idea: setting up a tip jar.
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You Can Soon Hide Your… Sensitive Pics with Google Photos’ Locked Folders on iOS
Earlier this year, Google introduced a new feature for Android devices that allows users to hide sensitive pics in a special Locked Folder in Google Photos, Now, according to a new update, Locked Folders will be added to Googe Photos on iOS sometime next year.
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Facebook Lays Out a Future in Which Some Poor Soul Will Be the First to Get Fired in the Metaverse
Facebook is trying really hard to make the metaverse happen, and at its annual Connect keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained what exactly that will entail.