How to Check for Dangerous, Superfish-Like Certificates on Your Windows PC

Did You Know? There is a very rare condition, known as auto-brewery syndrome, wherein the afflicted patient’s body has large enough quantities of a specific type of yeast in their digestive systems that their food is fermented into intoxicating levels of alcohol (ethanol) right within their body. Geek Trivia The Death Of Which Prominent Scientist Led To A Ban On Scientists Enlisting? Paul Dirac → Karl Heisenberg → Henry Moseley → James Chadwick → Advertisement Download Big Data for Dummies (Free for a limited time!) Usually $19.99 Find the right big data solution for your business or organization. Big Data For Dummies cuts through the confusion and helps you take charge of big data solutions for your organization. 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 Control Your Apple TV with Your Apple Watch How to Check for Dangerous, Superfish-Like Certificates on Your Windows PC How Do You Restore or Change the Default Appearance of the Text for Windows 10 Desktop Icons? How to Create Your Own Time-Lapse Driving Videos How to Prevent T-Mobile From Throttling Streaming Video Geek Comic Today's Tech Term COS COS (short for Class Of Service) refers to the process of managing the data traffic in an organization’s network by assigning it a “priority status” (i.e. high or low). 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. Headphone makers quietly prepare for the iPhone 7 No one at CES seems alarmed by the death of the headphone jack. [The Verge] The Lab Where Invisibility Cloaks Are Made Can science compete with magic? [The Atlantic] Why You Should Fix Your Inconsistent Sleep Schedule It turns out erratic sleep is linked to everything from car accidents to disrupted gut flora. [Nautilus] The Less Sporty Side Of E-Sports When taking a closer look at the economics of e-sports and streaming, it turns out that it pays much better to be entertaining than good. [TechCrunch] iOS 9.3 brings multi-user mode to iPads, along with more features and fixes Based on your time zone and geographic location, your iPhone or iPad will subtly shift the white balance of its screen from the cool blue-end of the spectrum to the warm yellow-end of the spectrum when the sun sets. [ArsTechnica] How to Control Your Apple TV with Your Apple Watch Why dig around for your phone or remote control when you could just control your TV from your wrist? Here’s how to set up your Apple Watch as a remote for your Apple TV. Read This Article → How to Check for Dangerous, Superfish-Like Certificates on Your Windows PC Dangerous root certificates are a serious problem. From Lenovo’s Superfish to Dell’s eDellRoot and a number of other certificates installed by adware programs, your computer’s manufacturer or a program you installed may have added a certificate that opens you to attack. Here’s how to check if your certificates are clean. Read This Article → How Do You Restore or Change the Default Appearance of the Text for Windows 10 Desktop Icons? For whatever reason, sooner or later we all have someone or something mess around with our keyboards and create ‘interesting’ results. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has a simple and elegant way to help a frustrated reader restore his desktop icon text back to the default appearance. Read This Article → How to Create Your Own Time-Lapse Driving Videos Have you ever wanted to create a time-lapse video of a drive through a scenic area, or a jaunt down a speedy highway at night? It’s actually pretty easy. With a smartphone and about $25, you can create your own time-lapse driving videos. Read This Article → How to Prevent T-Mobile From Throttling Streaming Video For a company that just announced a year-on-year increase of 8 million new customers, “cool uncle T-Mobile” is starting to look a little less perfect. After lots of controversy and confusion, T-Mobile has finally confirmed that they are throttling bandwidth for video streaming services for users of their Binge On program. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Big Data for Dummies (Free for a limited time!) Usually $19.99 Find the right big data solution for your business or organization. Big Data For Dummies cuts through the confusion and helps you take charge of big data solutions for your organization. Click here to download