In the original set of 60 Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the suspects escape or are let go in exactly 50 percent of the cases. | |
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| A WSOD (short for White Screen Of Death, a.k.a. White Death) is analogous to the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) that occurs in Windows. A WSOD is most often seen in an Apple product that has suffered a bad/severe drop, experienced the failure of a hardware component, or had an operating system upgrade failure occur. | |
| 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. - Open-World Games Are Changing the Way We Play
Unlike linear-games that are tackled, beaten, and not often revisited, the vastness and potential of open-world games make them stick with us (and encourage us to return to to them). [Wired] - Why The CDC Tracks Wireless-Only Households And Their Risky Behavior
We learned two things: first, the CDC is in the business of tracking how Americans communicate (to conduct better health surveys) and two, the rate of landland-shedding hasn't slowed down one bit in the 12 years they've been tracking it. [NPR] - Why your new £600 smartphone is probably not as good as your phone from a decade ago
Britain's version of the FCC ran tests on cellphones old and new. Their findings? Your new smartphone is better at everything, compared to your old dumbphone, except making phone calls. [The Telegraph] - TV binging, exercise skipping linked to poor cognitive function
Turns out your mom was right, you really should have watched less TV and gone outside more. [ArsTechnica] - Researchers Want a Robotic Space Cleaner to Digest Debris and Turn it into Fuel
This ambitious space project features autonomous robot satellites that zip around Earth chewing up space chunk and using that very space junk to fuel their travel. [Motherboard] - Don't be a Drone Noob this Christmas
If you're buying a drone for yourself or a loved one, this informative video covers some of the basics of drone setup and calibration that you might overlook. [Hack-a-Day] | |
| By default, your Apple Watch screen turns on when you raise your wrist. Also, by default, when the screen turns on due to a wrist raise, the watch face displays, even if you were performing a different activity on your watch when the screen went off. | |
| Apple TV has even more sophisticated content and purchase restrictions than its predecessors: it’s dead simple to restrict mature content, apps, and purchases. Let’s take a look at how to set and manage the restrictions. | |
| All modern computers, smartphones, and tablets can now easily print web pages and other documents to PDF files without any extra software. Microsoft added this to Windows 10, and Apple added it to iOS 9. | |
| As a person learns more about how mail clients, SMTP servers, and the whole online mail system works, they may be curious as to why an intermediate SMTP server is even needed. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions. | |
| Today we want to talk about Time Travel. No, we don’t mean actually going forward and backward temporarily. Rather, we want to talk about Time Travel as it pertains to the Apple Watch, what it is for, and what it does. | |
| The Home screen on the Apple Watch is a large, fluid grid of app icons. As you move them around, icons on the outside rim get smaller than the icons in the middle. This can make it hard to tap the icon you want. | |
| Windows 10’s first big update in November 2015 added a device-tracking feature. You can now enable GPS tracking and remotely locate a lost Windows 10 tablet or laptop just like you’d track a smartphone, tablet, or MacBook. | |
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