From the screech of dial-up modems to the whirring of floppy disks, these iconic computer sounds take us on a journey back in ...

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Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

Not that I lie awake at night thinking of this, but do hard drives make different sounds as they begin to fail — and take your precious data with them? Apparently, they do. Datacent Data Recovery, a ...

Although movie and game producers can now create computer-animated images of just about anything, the sounds made by those onscreen items still typically consist of recordings of real-world objects.

You probably assume that someone can only see what's on your computer screen by looking at it. But a team of researchers has found that they can glean a surprising amount of information about what a ...

Some users are complaining that their computer is freezing or crashing and making a high-pitched noise. This is troubling the routine of many users of Windows 11/10. Imagine you are working on ...

These Phission speakers are plasticky, have plasticky cables, and sound plasticky. But the fact is that they don’t suck. Music and speech sound clear, but slightly tinny. It’s anything but Hi-Fi, but ...

No PC is truly silent, but your computer shouldn’t be noisier than your lawnmower. If you have to turn up your music just to drown out the whirring or grinding noises your computer makes, you may want ...