You Should Upgrade to 64-bit Chrome. It's More Secure, Stable, and Speedy

Did You Know? You can, in fact, turn lead into gold: you just need a particle accelerator, vast amounts of energy, and a very low expectation for the amount of gold you’ll get at the end (which is why it’s much more economical to simply mine for it). Geek Trivia The Small Pocket In Blue Jeans Was Intended to Hold? A Pocket Watch → A Pen Knife → A Matchbook → Mass Transit Tickets → Advertisement Download Online Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking - FREE Video Training Course No longer will money have dominion over our ability to learn. Anyone who wants to become a penetration tester, now has the opportunity to learn to do so with this free course. 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 Manage Your Circles of Friends on the Apple Watch How to Calibrate Your Gaming Controller in Windows 10 You Should Upgrade to 64-bit Chrome. It’s More Secure, Stable, and Speedy How to Root Your Android Phone with SuperSU and TWRP How to Manage Slack’s Notification and Do Not Disturb Settings How to Refresh the Content in the App Store by Clearing the Cache What Is the Optical Audio Port, and When Should I Use It? How to Use and Configure Windows 10’s "Battery Saver" Mode Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Front Office Application A Front Office Application (a.k.a. Front End Application) is software designed to interact directly with current and prospective customers to provide a range of services such as taking orders, offering new products and services, customer support, customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation, and field service. 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. Y'all have a Texas accent? Siri (and the world) might be slowly killing it Voice recognition tools such as Apple's Siri still struggle to understand regional quirks and accents, and users are adapting the way they speak to compensate [The Guardian] New report contends mandatory crypto backdoors would be futile With two-thirds of crypto developed abroad, crooks have plenty of non-US alternatives. [ArsTechnica] In Historic First, Einstein's Gravitational Waves Detected Directly Gravitational waves, the cosmic ripples that distort space-time itself, have been directly detected for the first time. [Space.com] Spectographic analysis of a modem handshake A lovely piece of nostalgic datadiz: the squeals and chirps, converted to a stream of glowing pixels. [Boing Boing] A history of the Windows Start menu Microsoft's most identifiable product has had 20 years of ups and downs [The Verge] How to Manage Your Circles of Friends on the Apple Watch Your Apple Watch allows you to put your most important contacts in a circle of “friends”, so they’re just one button press away for calls, messages, and more. Read This Article → How to Calibrate Your Gaming Controller in Windows 10 Most PC gamers would rather die than let you take away their mouse and keyboard. But for third-person action games, racing, or emulated retro games, gamepads may still be worth using. If your controller isn’t quite working properly, you can calibrate it in Windows 10 to make sure that every movement translates to your game with 100% accuracy. Read This Article → You Should Upgrade to 64-bit Chrome. It’s More Secure, Stable, and Speedy Using Chrome on Windows? There’s a good chance you’re still using the 32-bit version. You should upgrade to the 64-bit version. It’s more secure–not to mention faster and more stable. Read This Article → How to Root Your Android Phone with SuperSU and TWRP If you really want to dig into the Android system, you may find that some apps require root access. Rooting has become less necessary over the years, but it’s still useful if you want to run certain types of apps. Here’s the most widely supported method for rooting your device, and why you might want to. Read This Article → How to Manage Slack’s Notification and Do Not Disturb Settings Slack has become a vital communication tool for many businesses, especially ones with lots of remote employees. But no one wants to get pings at every hour of every day. Read This Article → How to Refresh the Content in the App Store by Clearing the Cache Are you finding that you're not seeing new apps on the App Store, or that updates to apps won't go away even after you've installed the updates? Here’s a simple fix. Read This Article → What Is the Optical Audio Port, and When Should I Use It? Ever wonder what that trapezoidal “optical” audio port is? You’ll find these on the back of computers, HDTVs, media receivers, and more, but hardly anyone uses them. That little oft-neglected port can be a real life saver, though. Let’s look at what it is and how you can take advantage of it. Read This Article → How to Use and Configure Windows 10’s "Battery Saver" Mode Windows 10 includes  a “Battery Saver” mode that’s designed to extend your laptop or tablet’s battery life. Windows will automatically enable Battery Saver when your PC’s battery runs low, but you can control this–and choose exactly what Battery Saver does. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 Cloud Technology Kit (a $19.99 value) FREE for a limited time! Kit includes "Hybrid Cloud for Dummies" plus 3 other resources to help you find the right combination of public, private, and data center resources to empower your business. Click here to download