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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blu-ray disc. A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of ...

Jez Corden claims that the supply chain for Xbox and PlayStation to keep making optical disc drives is currently collapsing.

Hard drives and flash storage have gotten more reliable over the years, but only on a human timescale. What if we need data storage that lasts longer? Decades? Millennia? The key to that might be 5D ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...