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A recent report about hard-disk drive reliability suggests that not only do most HDDs die within three years, but those produced after 2014 can be less reliable, too. For many people, such news may signal ample reason for an accelerated death of the HDD—at least for consumer use. 

With solid-state drives both

ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard promise to transform your life using the power of artificial intelligence, through AI conversations that can inform, amuse, and educate you—just like a human being. But how good are these new AI chatbots, really? We tested them to find out.

We asked all three AIs a variety of different questions: some that expande

For many people, being tech-savvy or invested in cybersecurity means simply having a password manager. You probably know that isn’t exactly a comprehensive IT and cybersecurity solution. If you’re intere

There’s a cost to Amazon returns—on both the consumer and retailer side. It takes time and money to make a return, and then there are the environmental costs, not just from additional transit, but also from the dumping of unwanted products. But Amazon appears to be trying to minimize those hits to everyone’s bottom line with the launch of warning la

Microsoft’s “Windows 12” will be designed as a more modular system that will enable quick, frequent updates without much handholding from the user, according to a new report.

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There’s a long list of tools that AI has been applied to: AI art, AI chatbots, even AI assistants to control your home. Now, Microsoft is adding AI security to the list, too, with its new Security Copilot feature.

If you’ve ever managed (or, likelie

AI text generation is the hot ticket right now, and Newegg is ready to jump on the bandwagon. In addition to using the popular ChatGPT program for generating website text like product descriptions and customer service chat, the PC-focused web store is integrating the AI system into its PC Builder tool, which

In an ideal world, no one would need two-factor authentication. A good, strong password would be enough to keep hackers at bay.

But this life is imperfect, and humans are fallible creatures. We reuse passwords, or rely on ones that are easily guessed or cracked. We share passwords. We accidentally fall for phishing scams during moments of stress and fatigue