How to Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You

Did You Know? Long running American soap opera Guiding Light started in 1937 as an NBC Radio show, moved to CBS Radio, then CBS TV, and over its 72 year run had a total of 18,262 episodes. Geek Trivia The Name Of Japanese Crime Syndicates, the Yakuza, is derived from? Military Terminology → Emergency Response Codes → Japanese Myths → A Card Game → Advertisement Download Stress Management For Dummies (a $14.99 value) It's impossible to get through life without encountering stress. And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it. Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Use Do Not Disturb on Apple Watch How to Check and Recharge the Apple TV Remote How to Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You How to Cast Websites to Your TV From Microsoft Edge Everything You Need to Know About Using a MicroSD Card With Your Amazon Fire Tablet How to Install Extensions From Outside the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons Gallery Understanding Safari for iOS's Settings How to Change the Type of Numbers Used in a Numbered List in Word How to Change Your WiFi Network’s Name and Password Geek Comic Today's Tech Term UUCP UUCP (short for Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a set of computer programs and protocols that allows files on one computer to be sent/transferred to another computer. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. 'Freebooters' Are Stealing Videos from YouTube and Reposting Them to Facebook YouTube videos ripped off an uploaded to Facebook generate millions of views but neither YouTube nor the content creators see a dime [Motherbaord] Desert Bus charity run revs up for more torture for a good cause Truly it is an act of charity to play Desert Bus, the torturous game that never ends. [Polygon] Cory Doctorow on Why The Internet Will Always Suck No matter how fast we make the internet, we'll always innovate more innovative and hungry things to take advantage of it. [Locus Online Perspectives] TV ratings in the streaming age: Why nothing can be called a hit anymore. How TV ratings have changed, how they've stayed the same, and how it isn't really benefiting any of us. [Slate] Mars's Largest Moon Is Slowly Being Torn Apart It's not easy orbiting close to your host. [Motherboard] Oh the Places We Won't Go: Humans Will Settle Mars, and Nowhere Else If you thought the future looked like Star Trek with humans reaching across galaxies, you might not want to read this article. [Scientific American] How to Use Do Not Disturb on Apple Watch If you're in a meeting or at a movie or show, you can prevent your Apple Watch from bothering you with notifications. Notifications can be silenced on your iPhone using the "Do Not Disturb" feature, and you can do the same on your Apple Watch. Read This Article → How to Check and Recharge the Apple TV Remote The new 2015-edition Apple TV features a brand new remote with a new battery system and a new way to charge it. Read how to check the remote’s battery level and charge it back up. Read This Article → How to Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You There’s a good chance your smart TV is spying on you. Smart TVs often analyze the videos you’re watching and report back — whether you’re watching live TV, streaming videos on a service like Netflix, or playing local video files. Worse yet, this can be a security problem. Read This Article → How to Cast Websites to Your TV From Microsoft Edge Microsoft’s Edge browser receives media-casting support as part of Windows 10’s first big update. Edge can now cast media to MIracast and DLNA-enabled devices. This isn’t compatible with Google’s Chromecast, but it can be used for similar purposes. Read This Article → Everything You Need to Know About Using a MicroSD Card With Your Amazon Fire Tablet Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet only comes with 8 GB of storage, but it also supports MicroSD cards. A MicroSD card is an inexpensive way to add additional storage to your tablet and use it for music, videos, apps, and other types of content. Read This Article → How to Install Extensions From Outside the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons Gallery Modern versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox prevent you from installing unapproved add-ons. This is a good thing, and helps block malware from your browser. But you may sometimes need to install an unapproved add-on from a CRX or XPI file. Read This Article → Understanding Safari for iOS's Settings If you use Safari on your iPhone or iPad, then there are quite a few settings you can adjust to make the experience more suited to you liking. Today, we will show you how to adjust your Safari settings on your iOS device. Read This Article → How to Change the Type of Numbers Used in a Numbered List in Word By default, Word uses Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) when you create numbered lists. However, you can change the numbers to a different type or to letters. The character after the number or letter can also be changed. Read This Article → How to Change Your WiFi Network’s Name and Password Your Wi-Fi router comes with a default network name and password, and both are often printed on the router itself. But you can change the name and password to anything you want in just a few clicks. Read This Article →