How to Track Your Steps With Just an iPhone or Android Phone

Did You Know? Piano strings are high-tensile steel wires (some in the bass range are also wrapped in copper wiring); the total pulling stress over the whole set of strings inside a piano is equal to roughly 35,000 pounds. Geek Trivia Which Of These Planets Has Three Different Rotational Speeds? Neptune → Mars → Venus → Saturn → Advertisement Download Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (Valued at $16.99) In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence. 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. 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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. Drone pilots beware: You may have to get insurance, leave info after accident Two bills pending in California legislature aim to make drones safer for all. [ArsTechnica] Netflix Says It Will Crack Down On Customers Using VPNs To Access Its Global Catalog Netflix went global earlier this month, and now the U.S. company has said it will crack down on customers who use VPN software to access content that is not available or licensed in their country. [TechCrunch] To Cut Costs and Save Time, NASA's Taking More Risks Pressure to minimize costs and still produce are leading to NASA to poorly discuss decisions about risk management between all relevant parties. [Wired] F.lux creators ask Apple to open Night Shift features to developers The developers of f.lux have responded to Apple's recent iOS update that adds a feature called Night Shift, which makes it easier to use your iOS devices at night. [Mashable] Watch a dramatic spacewalk live, featuring a historic first for the UK - Quartz Briton Tim Peake and American Tim Kopra launched into space only a month ago, and they're already performing daring spacewalks. [Quartz] How to Fix the “Disabled by Company Policy” or “Managed by Your Organization” Message in Windows 10 Windows 10 has an awful lot of options in its new Settings app, but from time to time, you may encounter a setting that’s grayed out, with the message “disabled by company policy” or “Some settings are managed by your organization”. Here are a few reasons that may be happening. Read This Article → How to Track Your Steps With Just an iPhone or Android Phone You don’t need a smartwatch, fitness band, or pedometer to track your steps. Your phone can track how many steps you take and how far you walk all by itself, assuming you just carry it with you in your pocket. Read This Article → Are There any Risks in Using Y-Cables with USB Peripheral Devices? Sometimes it can be confusing when a tech specification ‘prohibits’ the use of a particular accessory item, yet everyone seems to think using the item in question is completely fine. Who is correct in the end? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a worried reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Add and Change World Clocks on the Apple Watch When you first set up your Apple Watch, you may or may not have a few world clocks on it. You can change the world clocks on your Apple Watch, but you’ll need to use your iPhone to do it. Read This Article → How to Add Contacts from Gmail, Outlook, and More to Windows 10’s Address Book Many of us juggle multiple email accounts between our professional and personal lives. Instead of managing multiple separate address books, you can use Windows 10’s People app to bring together all your contacts into a single, centralized interface. Read This Article → How to Remove Your Windows Disk Encryption Key From Microsoft’s Servers Windows enables device encryption on many Windows 10 and 8.1 PCs out-of-the-box. It also uploads your recovery key to Microsoft’s servers, allowing you to regain access to you encrypted drives even if you forget their passwords. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (Valued at $16.99) In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence. Click here to download