Computers used to be a lot noisier than they are today. And I don’t just mean the whir of spinning hard disks and the rattle of fans—they used to boop and beep every time you turned them on. If you ...

The Windows Insider program is one designed to let users test out new features before getting to the public, but it's incredibly rare for a person to want access to test out a bug. That happened, ...

Mac only: The signature Mac boot up sound can't even be silenced by plugged-in headphones, but the Startup Sound preference pane does the job. If you don't want to draw attention to yourself in class, ...