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In February 2024, Google removed a practical feature from its search engine: cached web pages. Back then, even when a web page became unavailable, you could browse Google’s cache — essentially a snapshot of what Google last saw when it visited the page.

After Google removed cached pages from search results, the only real alternative was to use the

If your laptop or PC has been infected by ransomware, i.e. a blackmail virus, you’ll receive a message asking you to pay a ransom. You’ll feel like your in the the hot seat, but that’s the whole point.

The criminal will crank up the pressure by threatening to destroy the encrypted data forever in a few days or publish it on the internet. If ever find yourse

USB labeling has long been a mystery for consumers. Terms like “USB 3.2 Gen 2” or “SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps” have caused more confusion than guidance, and shopping for USB accessories can feel like a crapshoot.

The good news is that the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) is trying to clean things up with

I spend way too many hours in my desk chair every day, which gave me all kinds of aches and pains when I used to have a poor quality chair. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your desk chair but can’t stomach the prices, here’s an opportunity worth jumping on.

Right now, Staples is selling the

Look, I know rich people aren’t uniformly stupid, but there definitely seems to be a subset of luxury goods that assume such. (Luxury fashion made to look like thrift store goods comes to mind.) And Asus apparently wants a piece of that blue-blood pie because it’s making an RTX 5090 graph

We love portable SSDs because they’re fast, small, and fulfill all sorts of purposes. But you can do a lot of the same stuff with a flash drive that’s even more compact and portable than an SSD.

And right now, the absolutely tiny 256GB Samsung Fit Plus is just $22 on Amazon,

It only took about nine years, but I’ve finally made Windows Task View part of my everyday workflow.

Task View arrived with Windows 10 in 2015, providing an alternative to cramming all of your open windows into the space afforded by your screen. By clicking the Task View button on the Windows taskbar — or just pressing Windows key + Tab — y

Recently, I’ve started to consider my own impact on the environment. As someone who occasionally reviews laptops, there are times when I’ve accumulated a collection of them in my home office. Whenever I gaze upon this backlog, I’m reminded of my own contribution to the omnipresent problem of electronic waste, which is why my next laptop will be an eco-friendly one.