HTG Explains: How Do Movies Leak Before They Premiere?

Did You Know? The Stanley Cup, the famed hockey trophy, is named after Lord Stanley of Preston who, when he was Governor General of Canada, was a well known hockey fan and supporter of the sport. Geek Trivia A Phenomenon Known As A “River” Is A Problem In Which Design-Related Field? Offset Printing → Lithography → Typography → Woodcutting → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. 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 Turn Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10 HTG Explains: How Do Movies Leak Before They Premiere? Can Unplugging a Portable USB Hard Drive Damage a Computer? How to Use Geektool to Customize Your Mac’s Desktop Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Blockchain A Blockchain is an important part (distributed transaction ledgers) of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer payment system. 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. Periodic table's seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added Discovery of four super-heavy chemical elements by scientists in Russia, America and Japan has been verified by experts and formally added to table [The Guardian] The roller coaster arms race heats up with death-defying coasters Among the record number of new coasters that will open next year is the world's fastest, with the longest drop [Macleans] Who Controls Your Facebook Feed? A small team of engineers in Menlo Park. A panel of anonymous power users around the world. And, increasingly, you. [Slate] Study: Shared Office Coffee Machines Are As Gross As You'd Think If you work in an office and use the communal coffee maker, chances are you've had the following thought at some point or other: Who cleans that thing? [FastCo] Five Years Ago, 'Avatar' Grossed $2.7 Billion But Left No Pop Culture Footprint - Forbes James Cameron's Avatar defied the skeptics and became the highest-grossing film of all-time, but five-years later it is all-but-forgotten in the pop culture landscape. Where are the fans? [Forbes] Why virtual reality is (still) the next big thing "We've said that VR and AR could be the next big computing platform, but to put that in perspective, the first smartphones came out in 2003." [Daily Dot] How to Turn Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10 All over Windows, you’ll see menus with the most recently used items for a given application. Maybe it’s a document you recently opened, or some videos you recently watched. Frequent Places works similarly, showing you important folders in your account (Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, and so on), plus folders you've pinned or accessed recently. Here’s how to turn off recent items and frequent places in Windows 10. Read This Article → HTG Explains: How Do Movies Leak Before They Premiere? At any given point, a large selection of recent movies show up on torrent sites, many of which haven’t even been released yet. For anyone who downloaded, streamed, or torrented these yet-to-be-seen-in-theaters selections, you might have noticed one common theme among all of them: they were stuck at DVD quality. Read This Article → Can Unplugging a Portable USB Hard Drive Damage a Computer? While many of us are familiar with the concept of improperly unplugging a portable hard drive causing potential data loss, is it also possible that your computer could be damaged as well? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Use Geektool to Customize Your Mac’s Desktop Geektool is a program for adding customizable widgets to your Mac’s desktop. Geektool runs almost entirely on shell scripts, which update every few seconds to display useful information on the desktop. Customizing Geektool is made easy by packaged scripts called Geeklets, which can be installed quickly and do not require knowledge of shell scripts to use. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. Click here to download