The Switch uses cartridges because they’re smaller, faster, and better for battery life and portability than disc drives used ...

Netflix has added hundreds of movies in the last ten years, but only a few have ever reached a disc format. Fans can now ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...

If a very large disc on a frictionless, horizontal spindle were gradually rotated faster and faster, what would happen as the ...

Disk images used by Macs are useful for managing files and folders together, backing them up, and simplifying software installation, but they have had performance issues. In particular, when an ...

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

While Apple doesn’t outright say it, the iPad can be used as your everyday computer instead of a Mac in a lot of instances. Those instances where the iPad is unsuitable often involve more mundane but ...

Why it matters: There is nothing more enduring than a "temporary" code patchwork for a vast software project. Former Microsoft employee Dave Plummer provides yet another demonstration of this golden ...

Windows 11 has done a lot to update and modernize long-neglected parts of Windows’ user interface, including many Settings menus and venerable apps like Notepad and Paint. But if you dig deep enough, ...

It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...