MiniDiscs were small, cartridge-based magneto-optical discs, primarily made for audio. Sony made these smaller discs in the ...

The first mechanical computer is an Analytical Engine, which was designed by Charles Babbage, the Father of the Computer.

These days, a movie night usually involves cuddling up on the couch, turning on Netflix, and picking another rom-com movie from its list of never-ending shows. However, before the age of streaming ...

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

Virtual Drive software is one of the best alternatives to DVDs and other physical storage drives we’ve been using. As the name suggests, it’s a virtual drive wherein you can mount data, store it, ...

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device. Traditionally, disk images were bit-by-bit copies of every ...

Researchers in February, from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, and other Chinese institutions have announced a groundbreaking ...

Materials Analysis and Chemical Sciences, Information and Decision Technologies, and Polymer and Chemical Technologies, Global Research Center, General Electric Company, Niskayuna, New York 12309, and ...