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Almost everyone has been through situations like cracked screens, water-damaged phones, and blank screens that won’t respond. When these inevitable events occur, it’s usually not the phone ...

Those of us of advancing years will remember the era of the floppy disc. Maybe not that of the 8-inch drive, but probably its 5.25-inch and certainly its 3.5-inch cousins. Some will remember the ...

You have got your shiny new Windows 11/10 computer. You have been using it for a while now, and it’s all fine and dandy. Then, without any sign, your hard disk drive or solid-state drive goes south.

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It’s a nightmare scenario: your Mac has been playing up for weeks and you’ve been ignoring it, or just haven’t been able to figure out how to fix it. Then it refuses to start up. Why didn ...