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 ...

AI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system ...

Agentic file management shows real productivity promise. Security, scale, and trust remain major open questions. At $100 per month, Cowork is for early adopters only. "With great power comes great ...

If you haven't been organizing and discarding files as you go, it's likely your hard drive is stuffed with downloads, unwanted photos, file copies and other digital dust bunnies. This can reveal ...

It's time to start paying attention to these overlooked directories.

Whenever I try to backup my computer files online, I get tripped up somehow. It’s inexplicably complicated, with most products unable to backup all my files simply — and to keep on doing that over ...

It’s very easy to say “you must back up your computer,” but doing so can sometimes feel like a chore. After all, catastrophic data loss doesn’t feel like it should be a common occurrence. It couldn’t ...

After buying an external 1TB HDD, I have been backing up all my files to it from various folders and optical media. Thing is, due to a number of reasons (lack of consistency being the chief one), I ...