Why Your Digital Memories Are Slowly Decaying to Dust

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I opened an old archive file the other day and found exactly this: UÛWeÐ ́õzøH„y+õðYzÒj{. A solid wall of unreadable gibberish, as if the file had been fed through a blender. It was supposed to contain tax documents and a handful of college essays from over a decade ago. Instead, it looked like my computer … Read more