Windows 11 to increase game performance, but games are more and more memory hungry.

Windows 11 is coming out very soon and the support for games is improving. The Direct Storage technology will make loading large amounts of data faster. This will be suitable for games like Far Cry 6 that requires 16 Gigabytes of video RAM to load textures with a high-resolution texture pack. That is quite amazing. … Read more

Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center

14468376_10103136675908131_1017204796411632535_o Why pay for air conditioning when you can just build a data center near the Arctic Circle and pump in the frosty winds? That’s why Facebook created these massive fans for its Luleå, Sweden data center. In hopes of proving that Facebook’s 10-year plan goes way beyond the News Feed, Mark Zuckerberg has begun sharing rare photos of the company’s technology. Here’s his… Read More

The shocking truth about the NSA and FBI access to Microsoft products such as Skydrive and Hotmail online accounts.

A new report shows that ‪#‎Microsoft‬ offered the ‪#‎NSA‬ direct access to #Outlook.com, ‪#‎Skype‬, ‪#‎SkyDrive‬ accounts. Microsoft has denied the accusations – What do you think, is this true? http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Offered-the-NSA-Direct-Access-to-Outlook-com-Skype-SkyDrive-Accounts-Report-367531.shtml. This could be true, this is part of the patriot Act and shows that the United States government does care about terrorism. But they are … Read more

New optical technology will allow storage of one Petabyte on a single DVD.

New technology that will revolutionize data storage has been developed. This allows the storage of one Petabyte or 1,000 Terabytes of data on one DVD disk. This is far more than the 50 GiB that a standard dual-layer Blueray disk can fit. This would mean that you could put an 8K resolution movie on a … Read more

256 Gigabyte USB drive available on Amazon.com. Is this a good deal or what?

This is a 256 Gigabyte USB flash drive. This shows how far we have come since the early days of portable storage of personal files. This will cost you US$545.67 on Amazon.com and would be able to store a huge movie collection and/or a good supply of music in MP3 or FLAC. Installing a copy of … Read more

Computer tape drives coming back to the computers of 2012.

Computer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer programs and information on reel to reel tapes that were on giant reels that were threaded on and then read at … Read more