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I turned ordinary USB sticks into things they were never supposed to be.

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Although cloud storage services and wireless local data transfers have reduced some of the reliance on flash drives, they are still ...

The 2000s was a decade of great change in the computer industry. The world had grown accustomed to corruptible floppy disks, blue screens of death, and achingly slow load times. In a few short years, ...

When you stop to think about it, flash drives are an incredible piece of technology. In 1956, the first computer with built-in storage became available in the form of IBM's 305 RAMAC. It weighed 2,000 ...

If you've ever found yourself in need of a new USB flash drive, you might have wondered whether buying new is the way to go. A quick search on Facebook Marketplace or eBay will reveal that there's no ...

From a convenient, secure way of unlocking your computer to helping children learn, those USB flash drives you have can be ...

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...

Defragging your drive was once a ritual. It largely got left in the past, but there are exceptions worth knowing.