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What is an optical drive? A guide to how your computer reads CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs
Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However…
Dave Johnson
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The final Mueller report will reportedly be given to Congress on CD-ROMs
Barr soon after released a four-page summary of Mueller's report, in which he wrote that Mueller di…
Eliza Relman
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Now You Can Play That Classic 'Hover!' Game That Came With Every Windows 95 CD-ROM
For the best part of this blast from the past, type "Bambi" when you pull up the single vs multi-pl…
Jillian D'Onfro
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That time Marc Andreessen's first company shipped a $7 million CD in a plastic baggie from the kitchen
A 2000 profile of Andreessen from Wired sheds more light on the MCI/Netscape relationship: When the…
Matt Weinberger
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Twitter's last day in San Francisco
San Francisco gave X a massive tax break to stay put. What went wrong?
Adam Rogers
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A picture of an old computer is making millennials nostalgic for a time when the internet felt like a luxury
An image of an old desktop computer blew up online, sparking a discussion about how our relationshi…
Andrew Lloyd
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I always thought that grand gestures only existed in romantic comedy films. Then I met the guy who took me on the most epic date ever.
The author shares how her now-husband took her on the best date ever, which ended with a Paul McCar…
Ali Velez Alderfer
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Google heads to court in a landmark trial that puts its search business in the crosshairs. Here's what's at stake.
Google's lawsuit with the Department of Justice over alleged anticompetitive practices heads to tri…
Hugh Langley
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Warren Buffett once counted World Book among his best businesses. Here's why the publisher became his 'most difficult problem.'
Buffett listed the encyclopedia maker as one of Berkshire Hathaway's "Sainted Seven" businesses in …
Theron Mohamed
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The last known Nintendo PlayStation is going up for auction - here's the wild story behind the one-of-a-kind, doomed collaboration with Sony
While the final product never hit store shelves, Sony reportedly manufactured about 200 Nintendo Pl…
Kevin Webb
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A millionaire who got rich selling his company to Facebook is bidding hundreds of thousands of dollars on an incredibly rare Nintendo prototype game console
Diebold's father, Terry Diebold, reportedly worked at Advanta Corporation - a now defunct banking c…
Ben Gilbert
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A $100 mini version of the original PlayStation is on the way with 20 games packed in - see it in action right here
There's no CD-ROM to read your PlayStation 1 games, and the RCA ports in the back have been swapped…
Ben Gilbert
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A $100, mini version of the original PlayStation is on the way with 20 games packed in - here are the games included
The PlayStation Classic is adorable, obviously. Just look at that tiny little replica of the origin…
Ben Gilbert
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These four missing features make the PlayStation Classic fall short of the original
The PlayStation Classic will employ new technology to make the console more compact and eliminate t…
Kevin Webb
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The original PlayStation just turned 25 - here are the 25 best PlayStation One games, according to critics
Nintendo and Sega dominated gaming during the early 90s, but the innovative PlayStation helped Sony…
Kevin Webb
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Reliance Jio will use French defence giant's AI to analyse data and boost marketing
Jio hopes that by using AI it will be able to have a more real-time picture of its user'…
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Sending an email in 1984 was a very different experience than it is today
Thankfully, British television channel "Thames TV" documented how 1984 techies Julian and Pat Green…
Antonio Villas-Boas
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Warren Buffett's favorite encyclopedia became his 'most difficult problem.' Here's the story of World Book.
A year later, Buffett touted the "most dramatically revised edition since 1962" with 10,000 more co…
Theron Mohamed
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Apple's first completely wireless iPhone without a charging port may be less than 2 years away
When Apple removed the headphone jack from its smartphones in 2016 with the iPhone 7, it positioned…
Lisa Eadicicco
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Ditching headphone jacks from iPhones similar to ditching DVD drives from MacBooks, says JayBird chief marketing officer
He added that the 3.5mm headphone jack was originally launched with Walkman and the CD players, and…