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Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...
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How to Play a DVD on Windows (And Some Blu-ray Discs)

Physical media, including vinyls, cassettes, and CDs are all the rage right now. If you're looking to dust off your collection of DVDs and put them to use in your Windows PC, getting them playing is ...
Wired

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...
PC Gamer

After 4,500 hours of testing, SSD controller specialist Phison rules out allegations that a Windows 11 update is bricking drives

SSDs Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC SSDs Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC SSDs Best ...
Windows Central

Mastering horror: Why Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team’s boldest game yet

Cronos: The New Dawn feels like an amalgam of a broad variety of horror greats in the best possible way — paying homage to the giants of the past while carving its own twisted niche steeped in ...
PC Gamer

Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0

Escape from Tarkov, the influential extraction shooter from Battlestate Games, is coming to Steam after eight years in early access. The news was first teased by Battlestate head of studio, Nikita ...