Gaming Consoles Aren't Plug-and-Play Anymore. They're a Hassle, Just Like PCs

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How to Reset Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 How to Copy TWRP Android Backups to Your PC for Safe Keeping Gaming Consoles Aren’t Plug-and-Play Anymore. They’re a Hassle, Just Like PCs How to Adjust Your Mac’s Screen Brightness, Manually and Automatically How to Stop Windows 10 Apps From Running in the Background How to Fix PIN Errors After Restoring from TWRP Android Backups Touch Screen Laptops Aren’t Just a Gimmick. They’re Actually Useful Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Graylisting Graylisting (also spelled Greylisting) is a spam prevention method where incoming mail is rejected by the receiving server the first time it is received (based on the sender’s IP address and additional routing information). Graylisting works on the premise that a legitimate sending server will receive the rejection notice and send the message out again, whereas a spam producing server will most likely not bother trying again. 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. Headshot: A visual history of first-person shooters Doom, Halo, Goldeneye, Half-Life, Call of Duty... you may recognize a few of these. [ArsTechnica] The Best AI Still Flunks 8th Grade Science We're a long way from machines that can carry on a real conversation. We're even a long way from machines that can take a basic science test. [Wired] Google's Project Loon to Begin Carrier Testing This Year Google's "moonshot" to deliver Internet to remote parts of the world using high-flying balloons has survived a brutal development phase, and will enter testing with carriers in Indonesia and elsewhere this year. [Recode] First Click: Can robots learn to behave by reading our books? Teaching via the written word is as old as civilization, but will it work for robots? [The Verge] How to Reset Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 Microsoft Edge is still in its early days, and occasionally, problems can arise. If you find that Edge is experiencing slow performance, crashes, or the weird appearance of adware, toolbar, or popups, then you may have to reset Microsoft Edge. Read This Article → How to Copy TWRP Android Backups to Your PC for Safe Keeping TWRP backups can save your bacon if you mess up your Android device. But if you’ve run out of space on your phone–or if you need to wipe its storage–you can copy those backups to your PC with a simple ADB command. Read This Article → Gaming Consoles Aren’t Plug-and-Play Anymore. They’re a Hassle, Just Like PCs After more than a decade as a fervent PC gamer, I purchased a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Wii U last year, eager to try the current crop of consoles. The last console I seriously used was a Nintendo 64. A lot has changed since then. Read This Article → How to Adjust Your Mac’s Screen Brightness, Manually and Automatically MacBooks attempt to automatically manage your display brightness for you, dimming the display when you step away from an outlet and adjusting the brightness to suit the overall light level nearby. But you can adjust the brightness manually and even disable these features, if you like. Read This Article → How to Stop Windows 10 Apps From Running in the Background Those new Windows 10 apps have permission to run in the background so they can update their live tiles, fetch new data, and receive notifications. Even if you never even touch them, they may drain some battery power. But you can control which apps are allowed to run in the background. Read This Article → How to Fix PIN Errors After Restoring from TWRP Android Backups Making TWRP backups is a must if you’re going to be rooting and tweaking Android. But if your phone is encrypted, you may have some issues with your PIN or password lock after restoring from a backup. Here’s what’s going on. Read This Article → Touch Screen Laptops Aren’t Just a Gimmick. They’re Actually Useful Touch on Windows laptops, in one form or another, has been around for quite some time. For most of that time, it was bad. No wait, bad is too generous–it was nearly unusable. But as much as no one wants to admit it, that’s all changed. Touch is quite good on Windows 10. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Office 2016 Keyboard Shortcuts Use this quick guide to learn some handy shortcuts to increase your productivity. This Office 2016 Keyboard Shortcuts guide is the quick and easy way to make the most out of Office 2016. Click here to download