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The 5 biggest tech myths of history

  • Nov 15, 2025
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With almost every new technology the time to create new and, in part, curious myths. A lot of rumors around everyday technology often are quite persistent, are used only once. We reveal the five biggest wrong information.

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Safely Remove USB storage

Time and again one hears and reads that the USB memory media do not "take damage when you remove them safely" and ejects.
  • The USB storage is it doesn't matter whether you remove him or not. The Hardware takes no harm by simply pulling it off.
  • The data on the USB memory can be damaged if you remove the media during a Write or read operation.
  • To avoid data corruption, you must have the memory but not via the menu eject. Simply watch the lights of the store. It is no longer flashing is completed, the Write or read operation and to disconnect the Medium safely.
  • It is also important that the USB Stick is connected properly. Like the one on the first try works, we will show you in this Video.
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Popcorn with the cell phone because you remain hungry

To handle about radiation and its impact countless rumors are circulating.
  • One of these legends would like to believe that you can conjure up with the help of three mobile phones from Corn delicious Popcorn. A Video is circulating on the net.
  • You can try it yourself. However, you should not be disappointed when the video evening goes by without the Treat: it doesn't work.
  • The said Video is a promotional film of a Bluetooth-Headset-manufacturer - and.
With the phone it does not work

The Magnet and the disk - can it work?

You have probably heard that you should never put a magnet near a hard drive. The data would be destroyed. Is that true?
  • The answer is: it depends! In the resting state, a strong Magnet from a hard drive can't harm. The data will remain intact - although they are magnetically stored.
  • Otherwise it looks in operation. Here the Magnet can cause a hard drive crash. By the Magnet, the Mechanism can be disturbed. The reading head can for example be deflected and on the data disc set up.
  • SSDs and storage stocks are impervious to magnets. You have no Mechanics.
  • Your hard drive should give up the Ghost, is also not a Problem. In further articles we will show you how you can data from your broken hard disk to save and a new SSD hard drive installed.
Magnet: In the idle state, there is no danger

Without a screen saver, the image burns itself

True or not true? The answer: both, depending on which technique you look.
  • In the days of tube screens, it really is in such a way that an image could be screen burn-in. A screen saver was a Must.
  • CRT monitors, however, found in almost any household and more. Today, LCD are used-screens. And in the case of LCD can burn-in no image.
  • In modern Laptops, or screens, the screen saver is pure entertainment and has no real purpose.
  • From today's point of view, it is therefore a myth that a Screensaver must be turned on to protect the screen.
Now superfluous: Screensaver
Technology determines our lives. And as long as there is technology, there will also be new myths around the topic. Some of the technology is experiencing a boost thanks to the rumor mill, really. The industry is booming, and also produces new success stories. The five most successful men in the industry, we can provide you with therefore, in a further article.

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