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It's finally happening. Samsung is aiming to make  solid-state drives  as affordable as hard drives with its latest line of 860 QVO SSDs. The Samsung 1TB 860 QVO SSD will only cost $149 (about £120, AU$210), which makes the price closer to that of the budget-friendly WD Black 1TB hard drive at $99. Sure, there’s still a price gap, but the Samsung 860 QVO operates at much faster read and write speeds of 550 MB/s and 520 MB/s, respectively.  Compare that to the speediest hard drives, like one with fast-spinning 10,000 RPM platters like the now extinct WD VelociRaptor series. They max out around 200 MB/s in sequential read and write speeds. Samsung has managed to bring solid-state storage to never before seen levels of affordability by utilizing high-density 4-bit multi-level cell NAND flash architecture. This form of memory can essentially pack in more data into its substrate and is cheaper for the Samsung to manufacture. The 860 QVO also comes fitted with ...

Your web browser likely now allows websites to send you notifications in a similar way to the apps you use, and sometimes you might decide that you just don't want them. It can be useful for news stories and updates from websites you know and love. It's something we even do on TechRadar for our fans, but you may not want notifications from us and we understand that. That's why we've put together this guide on how you can disable notifications for Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari. Whenever you visit a website that wants to send you notifications, you'll be greeted with a pop up that asks whether you want to agree to them or not. Your options will be 'allow' or 'block'. If you're getting notifications from TechRadar or another site, you will have previously pressed the allow button. It may be you've visited sites in the past and pressed allow without really realizing, or you've intentionally decided you wanted the...

If you've ever wondered how to take a screenshot on a Mac or MacBook, then you've come to the right place, as we explain all the ways you can take a screenshot on a Mac. The latest version of the Mac operating system,  macOS 10.14 Mojave , features revamped screenshot and screen recording tools.  When you take a screenshot (by holding Shift + Command (⌘) and pressing 3 or 4 on your keyboard), a thumbnail appears at the bottom right of the screen for a moment, similar to iOS. Click the thumbnail to open the screenshot in the Markup tool, where you can crop, rotate and annotate it, or share it with someone or send it to an app immediately. Ctrl-click the thumbnail to reveal shortcuts that send the screenshot to a popular folder or app, or to reveal the file in the default folder for shots. That folder and other options can be set by pressing Shift + Command (⌘) + 5 to call up a new toolbar. (You can drag the thumbnail to where it’s needed, too.) The sc...

2018 has already welcomed a barrage of new cameras equipped with 4K video recording, and now almost every major camera manufacturer has implemented 4K shooting somewhere in their lines.  Perhaps most impressively, the technology has been successfully stretched over models of all billings. So, whether you’ve only got a few hundred pounds or dollars to spend or you're willing to stretch to a handsome four-figure sum, it’s likely you can afford a camera with the technology on board. Just because two cameras have 4K recording, however, doesn't mean to say they're equal. The use of different sensors and different methods of capture, together with variations in output possibilities, mean two 4K cameras can behave quite differently.  Even something as simple as whether the camera uses the full width of the sensor or applies a crop factor is vital to consider, as this has a significant effect on your effective angle of view. And all of the above is before we even c...