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(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Best Flash Drives USB flash drives have remained a popular option for decades for those who need local, pocketable access to key files. These tiny drives are still sold everywhere (including at chain drug stores, usually at highly inflated prices), despite companies like Google, Microsoft, and DropBox making cloud storage a convenient and often free (depending on capacity) alternative. Because flash drives often seem to last forever, you could be hanging onto one that's pitifully slow by today's standards, and too cramped to hold all the data you need. Capacities of up to 2TB are an option with several models (and 1TB is fairly common), and the performance of the fastest flash drives approaches that of some of the best external SSDs. We've tested dozens of recent flash drives from leading brands to help find the best options for you, and listed the best USB flash drives below. However, if fast performanc...

Cleanup efforts are continuing in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex after powerful storms knocked out power to more than 1 million utility customers and left trails of damage early Tuesday morning. DALLAS – Cleanup efforts continue in Texas from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to Houston after severe weather left trails of damage and knocked out power to more than 1 million utility customers on Tuesday. Powerful thunderstorms barreled across the Lone Star State and produced baseball-sized hail and hurricane-force wind gusts that tore roofs from buildings, flipped vehicles and snapped trees like twigs. HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER Video recorded in Dallas on Tuesday shows power lines sparking as a powerful thunderstorm blasted through the city on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The extreme weather started before sunrise in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, with the National Weather Service issuing numerous Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings while outdoor warning sirens wailed and ce...

Exactly one year after the start of the 2023 writers strike left TV Town pulling out its collective hair trying to figure out what to put on the air, CBS announced its schedule for the 2024-2025 fall TV season, and it's back to business, baby. Well, provided the potential IATSE (The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) strike doesn't happen and disrupt another season of television, but that's another story.  The most-watched broadcast show of the season (with help from the cushy post-Super Bowl premiere slot), Justin Hartley's  Tracker , moves to a new time slot on Sundays, inching up an hour to anchor the evening and lead into a new season of The Equalizer at 9/8c. Come midseason, they will be joined by new series Watson , a reimagining of Sherlock Holmes' partner, starring Morris Chestnut. More TV schedules: Mondays will be NCIS night, with the original  NCIS  paired with the new prequel series NCIS: ...

Wednesday Forecast: Sunny and pleasant with a few afternoon storms possible Lowering heat and humidity for the rest of the week Updated : 3 hours ago RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A few afternoon and evening showers and storms possible Wednesday, but most areas end up dry Read More... RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A few afternoon and evening showers and storms possible Wednesday, but most areas end up dry Read More...

Hot on the heels of From Hong Kong to Beijing <香港人在北京>, TVB is slated to air Dead Ringer <疊影狙擊>, the first external production to take the TVB anniversary slot! A Media Asia-Youku Co-production Co-produced by Media Asia Entertainment and Chinese streaming platform Youku, 24-episodic series Dead Ringer is one of TVB's four anniversary dramas this year alongside light-hearted comedy, From Hong Kong to Beijing , Romeo and His Butterfly Lover <羅密歐與祝英台> starring popular real-life celebrity couple Moses Chan (陳豪) and Aimee Chan (陳茵媺) , and anticipated The Queen of News <新闻女王>, actress Charmaine Sheh's (佘詩曼) comeback series. Charmaine Sheh and Kenneth Ma's "The Queen of News" is one of TVB's 2023 anniversary dramas. The choice of Dead Ringer was an unprecedented move on TVB's part as it has never featured an externally produced series since the anniversary drama tradition started back in 1979; dramas that ...

The second season of "Athdal Chronicles" may not air as scheduled. Previously in February, tvN confirmed that the second season of "Arthdal Chronicles" is being prepared with an aim to begin filming in the second half of the year. However, according to recent reports, the production schedule will be postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has caused the production company to make some changes because they are not able to film overseas, which means the production team has to reorganize the schedule with the actors as well. The goal was to air the drama next year, but the schedule will reportedly be delayed as the filming has been postponed. Therefore, the second season of "Arthdal Chronicles" has been excluded from the 2021 lineup. One industry representative said, "The producti...

Apple's iPhone 15 finally switches over to USB-C. But to receive the fastest data transfer speeds on the port, it looks you'll need to upgrade to the Pro models and pay for the right cable. The standard iPhone 15 can only offer data transfer speeds at up 480Mbps through the USB-C slot, according to the product's spec sheet. That's because Apple decided to settle for an old USB 2 port for the device. (Credit: Apple) As a result, the standard iPhone 15 is still restricted to the same data transfer speeds of the outgoing Lightning port. To get faster speeds, consumers will need to buy the iPhone 15 Pro models, which come with a USB 3 port, and offer support for up to 10Gbps data transfer rates.  The only problem? It appears Apple is merely bundling a USB 2 cable with the iPhone 15 Pro models, not the USB 3 cable needed to achieve the 10Gbps speeds.  (Credit: Apple) The tech specs for the iPhone 15 Pro oddly contain a footnote that says: ...