You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new paper published by researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology teases that they've developed an optical disc that's capable ...

Before you laugh at floppy disks, check whether your DVDs are still readable.

You can buy a disc rated to last 1,000 years, but the company that invented it survived for less than a decade. The Millennial Disc, or M-DISC, is a write-once optical format that physically engraves ...

You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...