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The once ubiquitous USB flash drive has declined in popularity with the rise of the cloud, but these portable storage devices still have a lot to offer. Also known as thumb drives or memory sticks, flash drives provide storage for backing up precious photos, playing movies on the big screen, or copying files from one phone or laptop to another. They can also keep sensitive data off the internet altogether, which greatly diminishes the possibility of that data being hacked. They are affordable, small enough to fit on a keychain, and boast ever-increasing capacities and data transfer speeds. After testing many, we’ve selected these as the best USB flash drives for various purposes and budgets.
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Fast forward a year: they get a new phone and set up the messaging app. They aren’t prompted to use a passkey because one no longer exists in their credential manager. Instead, they use phone number verification to recover their account. They are then guided through the “restore backup” flow and prompted for their passkey.
Streaming probably won’t disappear any time soon—it’s too convenient for too many people, McCluskey said, and few young Americans live in a place with a video rental store and youth community center rolled into one. But for a generation that has spent their entire lives being entertained by an algorithm, popping a disc into a player, sitting back, and knowing that their viewing experience won’t be interrupted by slow Internet seems almost radical.