About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word alternative ...

I have an old IDE hdd that my parents want to get their files off of. I thought that I could just basically plug the drive into my computer, set it as a slave in the bios, and go from there.

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...