Forget the Facebook App: Use the Mobile Site for a Less Annoying Experience

Did You Know? (Updated) There are only 97 leap years in every 400 year interval (not 100 as one would expect) because every century year that can’t be evenly divisible by 400 is skipped in order to keep the calendar on track. For instance, 2000 was a leap year, but 1900 was not. Geek Trivia The First Commercial Multicore Microprocessor Was The? Intel Pentium D → AMD Athlon 64 x2 → Intel Atom → IBM Power4 → Advertisement Download SDN 101: An Introduction to Software Defined Networking SDN has quickly become one of the hottest trends in IT. But not all SDN solutions offer real software-defined functionality. As more enterprises consider SDN, they want to know, "What is SDN? And what are the real benefits?" If you're ready to explore the advantages of SDN, and want to know how it should be implemented within your enterprise, start by reading our introductory white paper. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Customize and Filter Your Address Book in Windows 10 How to Manually Create Compound Characters in Word How to Watch Netflix, Hulu, and More Through a VPN Without Being Blocked Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Data Exhaust Data Exhaust refers to the various types of data/files generated by people’s online or digital activity (like a vehicle’s exhaust trail) such as cookies, flash cookies, log files, temporary Internet files, etc. 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. This Isn't the First Time Astronomers Have 'Found' a Planet Nine Something big could lurking at the edge of the solar system. Something big—two to four times larger than Earth—and dark. [Wired] I Tried to Hack Hours off My Sleep Time by Going 'Polyphasic' The varied sleep hacks that make up the polyphasic sleep movement yield mixed results for participants ranging from no benefit at all to claiming those extra hours in the day we wish we all had. [Motherboard] It's time to rethink how we identify disease-causing microbes Modern disease theory must account for communities of commensal bacteria. [ArsTechnica] How secure are New York City's new Wi-Fi hubs? NYC is in the process of rolling out the world's largest municipal Wi-Fi project. How does it stack up from a security standpoint? [The Verge] There really is no such thing as speed reading New research indicates that your teachers were right all along: there's no substitute for slow, deep, and focused reading when it comes to retaining knowledge. [Quartz] How to Rebuild a Broken Icon Cache in Windows 10 The icons that Windows uses for your documents and programs are saved in an icon cache, so they can be displayed quickly instead of having to slowly load them every time. If you ever have problems with the icons on your computer, rebuilding the icon cache might help. Read This Article → How to Make YouTube Kid-Friendly with the YouTube Kids App Parents worried about their kids and inappropriate YouTube content now have a handy parenting companion. The YouTube Kids app makes it easy to set up a walled-garden of kid-safe videos on any Android or iOS device. Read This Article → Forget the Facebook App: Use the Mobile Site for a Less Annoying Experience Facebook’s Android and iPhone apps still aren’t great. The iPhone app has had bugs that cause it to drain battery in the background, and Facebook once reportedly made its Android app crash on purpose, and even. And don’t even get us started on the Android app’s permissions. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between DDR3 and DDR4 RAM? After using the same DDR3 standard for eight years, RAM manufacturers everywhere have begun the process of rolling out their latest memory chips in the form of DDR4. But what benefits (if any) does DDR4 have over DDR3 in real-world applications, and are they worth the increased cost? Read This Article → How to Customize and Filter Your Address Book in Windows 10 The People app is an essential tool for creating and managing contacts. We've previously shown you how to import or manually create an address book in Windows 10. As you add different accounts (like Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo!, Exchange, Office 365 for business) and add contacts, your list will quickly grow. Thankfully, the People app lets you search, edit, and link different contacts to keep it all straight. Read This Article → How to Manually Create Compound Characters in Word If you occasionally need to use mathematical symbols in your documents that aren’t available in Word’s "Insert Symbol" dialog box, there are a couple of easy methods for entering your own custom compound characters. Read This Article → How to Watch Netflix, Hulu, and More Through a VPN Without Being Blocked Netflix recently announced it plans to crack down on VPN, proxy, and unblocking DNS users trying to access content in other countries. The good news: watching streaming sites through a VPN may get a bit more difficult, but it will always be possible. Read This Article → Advertisement Download SDN 101: An Introduction to Software Defined Networking SDN has quickly become one of the hottest trends in IT. But not all SDN solutions offer real software-defined functionality. As more enterprises consider SDN, they want to know, "What is SDN? And what are the real benefits?" If you're ready to explore the advantages of SDN, and want to know how it should be implemented within your enterprise, start by reading our introductory white paper. Click here to download