Cybersecurity (Image credit: Toshiba) Toshiba has announced plans to bring 30TB+ hard drives to the commercial market in 2025. The large capacities have been made possible through two magnetic recording technologies: Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR). HAMR technology significantly enhances writing capabilities by heating the disk material with a...
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Microsoft is finally changing Word’s annoying default Paste behavior
Cincinnati Image: monticello / Shutterstock.com The default pasting behavior of Microsoft Word is a nightmare, and has been forever. If you want to add a text or image using the standard option, you can easily mess up the entire formatting in the text if a completely different font suddenly appears. The horror! After many years...
You can finally use passkeys to log into your Microsoft account
Ohio Image: Microsoft For World Password Day, Microsoft is doing something I can appreciate: helping get rid of them. Today, the company said that all Microsoft consumer accounts will be passkey enabled. Adios, passwords! What’s a passkey? It replaces passwords by combining something you have (such as a phone, a physical security key, or your...
You can finally use passkeys to sign into your Microsoft account
Ohio Microsoft is celebrating World Password Day (IT folks deserve holidays, too!) by helping to kill them. The company has finally rolled out consumer passkey support for Microsoft accounts, nearly two years after Apple and Google. Once you set it up, the passkey lets you sign into your Microsoft account using your face, fingerprint or...
Tesla Cybertruck finally gets more off-road controls
Cybersecurity The Tesla Cybertruck is finally getting an off-road mode via an over-the-air software update, allowing early owners of the monstrous electric truck to finally get granular 4×4-style features that were promised from the start. The news comes via a post by Tesla’s Cybertruck account on X, which shared an image of the Off-Road Mode...
OneDrive finally catches up to Google Drive and iCloud with an offline mode
Cybersecurity (Image credit: IB Photography via Shutterstock) Microsoft OneDrive has finally introduced a feature long considered a staple of Google Drive and iCloud: an offline mode. The mode will be rolled out to students and professionals from today onwards, allowing users to save and edit work whether they have an internet connection or not. Offline...
Google will finally put Keep reminders in Tasks, where they always belonged
Ohio The reminders you’ve jotted down in Google Keep will soon show up in Tasks. Google says the long-requested integration is coming over the next year, allowing you to see, edit, and complete your Keep reminders across Tasks, Calendar, and Assistant. The change will make Tasks the central hub for all to-dos and reminders, hopefully...
Mercedes-Benz finally unveils its electric G-Class luxury off-roader
Ohio Back in 2022, Mercedes-Benz announced that it was going to release an electric G-Class by the end of 2024. Now, the automaker has formally introduced the electrified version of its iconic luxury vehicle that’s known for its exclusivity. The Mercedes-Benz G 580 with EQ Technology comes equipped with a 116 kWh lithium-ion battery that...
Finally, someone used Pareto’s economic theories to find the best Mario Kart 8 racer
Cybersecurity Who hasn’t spent sleepless nights pondering what would happen if we applied Vilfredo Pareto’s (the early 20th-century Italian economist) theories to Mario, the Mushroom Kingdom’s Italian high-jump champion and part-time elephant cosplayer? Data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz, PhD, tackled that age-old question, and the resulting work provides an objective way to tell us the best...
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Cincinnati Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has chosen the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, as the initial study site to test its Telepathy device. The first participant in Neuralink’s study, Noah Arbaugh, underwent a successful procedure at the institute in January to get the device implanted. Known as a brain-computer interface, or BCI, the...