Google is finally cracking down on inactive accounts. This week, Google announced an update to its inactivity policy, lowering the amount of time that a Google Account can stay inactive to two years. Starting later in 2023, if you haven’t used or logged in to a Google Account for at least two years, Google may…
Cloud storage and storage analytics specialist Backblaze has just released a juicy report covering the reliability of the hundreds of thousands of hard drives deployed on the company’s servers — Backblaze managed 236,893 HDDs as of 1Q23. The report covers the reliability and failures experienced on the various models. Taking into account Power-On-Hours for any…
AMD on Tuesday posted its first quarterly loss in years due to weak sales of processors for client PCs. Overall, AMD’s chip sales dropped 64%. AMD’s data center and gaming hardware shipments remained strong and were flat year-over-year, which is quite an achievement given the slowing purchases of servers and weak demand for gaming hardware…
Who doesn’t like April Fools’ day, a day each year when we let our inner pranksters out to play harmless jokes on our friends and family? It’s also become a day each year when PC hardware vendors can unleash their creativity and announce ridiculous products without repercussion. Over the years, we’ve seen some unique and…
We all want our data to be safe and in Japan there is the so-called Electronic Books Preservation Act which mandates that certain types of tax-related data has to be preserved electronically for 100 years. But, so far, most recordable Blu-ray discs, a popular standard for cold storage, are not designed to last that long. To…
A year after its official launch, it’s clear that Valve’s Steam Deck PC Gaming handheld has been an unquestionable success. Despite early production backlogs, Valve’s device has received a mostly warm response from reviewers (us included), and it’s currently occupying the number three spot on the company’s own global best sellers list (for whatever that…
Mundfish’s Atomic Heart is releasing today, but without a feature that the developer and Nvidia have been pushing for years: ray tracing. What was seemingly once the next flagship gaming for Nvidia RTX has delayed the feature on PC at the last minute, according to reviewers. “I noticed the lack of ray tracing options in the…
It is no secret that the PC business and tech industry at large is going through a bit of a rough patch. However, a new report penned by Dean McCarron of Mercury Research paints an incredibly bleak picture of the state of things. Probably the biggest bombshell is that figures show the x86 processor market…
Intel on Thursday posted rather grievous financial results as the company’s revenue for the quarter dropped both sequentially and year-over-year, and the company lost $700 million as its margins collapsed to a multi-year minimum. While the company remained profitable in 2022, it said its earnings would drop further this quarter as its customers will aggressively…
Apple has updated the Apple Support website with a new design this week. It offers larger images, new icons, and even shows the most common issues – including the most used Apple Service Programs. The overhaul was spotted by 9to5Mac. By removing the old flat icons, the company bets on a new Support webpage with…
