Why PC Gamers Hated Microsoft's "Games for Windows LIVE"

Did You Know? In 1999, Stephen King was hit by a distracted motorist; his lawyer and two others later purchased the motorist’s van to prevent it from being sold as the van that had almost killed Stephen King. Geek Trivia Hong Kong Cinema Was Inadvertently Popularized In The West By? British Censorship → U.S. Soldiers → Exchange Students → Immigration Laws → Advertisement Download 2016 Security Essentials - The Ultimate Defense Kit (a $39.99 value!) Kit includes "Windows Malware Analysis Essentials" plus 3 other resources to help you understand network security. 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 Use the Alarm, Timer, and Stopwatch on Android Why PC Gamers Hated Microsoft’s “Games for Windows LIVE” Can Using the Wrong Power Supply Slow Down a Laptop? How to Stop Your iPhone from Recording Your Frequent Locations How to Disable the Action Center in Windows 10 How to Set Alarms and Timers on the Apple Watch How to Personalize Your Ad Settings in Hulu How to Set Your PC Games’ Graphics Settings with No Effort Geek Comic Today's Tech Term LIDB An LIDB (short for Line Information Database) is a record maintained by a telephone service provider that contains customer information such as service profiles, names, addresses, and credit card validation information. 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. We may all happily follow our robot overlords to disaster Study participants took emergency instructions from a robot they knew was faulty. [ArsTechnica] Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, a program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. [The Verge] What Should We Call Self-Driving Cars? "Driverless," "autonomous," or something else altogether? [The Atlantic] System loads webpages 34% faster by fetching files more effectively A team at MIT has optimized code to increase web page load times by a staggering 34%. [MIT] Going viral in 1896 took years, not hours A new database of more than 10 million newspaper pages is helping researchers see history with spatial information that hadn't been available before. [Futurity] How to Use the Alarm, Timer, and Stopwatch on Android Your Android device’s built-in Clock app can serve as an alarm clock, a kitchen timer, and a stopwatch for timing activities. You can create multiple alarms and timers, adjust the snooze times for your alarms and record lap times using the stopwatch. Read This Article → Why PC Gamers Hated Microsoft’s “Games for Windows LIVE” Microsoft is clashing with the PC gaming community again, with everyone from PC gamers to the CEO of Epic criticizing Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform. Microsoft doesn’t have a lot of goodwill left in the PC gaming community, thanks especially to the disastrous “Games for Windows LIVE” service from a few years back…and they’re worried history will repeat itself. Read This Article → Can Using the Wrong Power Supply Slow Down a Laptop? Sometimes, through no fault of our own, we may lose the charging cable for our laptop and have to make do with a “less than optimal” substitute. If the “replacement” charging cable is from the same company, but is a different wattage, can it cause the laptop to slow down? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Stop Your iPhone from Recording Your Frequent Locations Just like Google’s location service, your iPhone tracks where you go and saves that information so you can view later on a map. If you don’t want your iPhone tracking your every move, though, it only takes a few seconds to see and clear these locations and turn the feature off. Read This Article → How to Disable the Action Center in Windows 10 The Action Center in Windows 10 collects notifications from Windows and other apps, displaying them in a single pop-up sidebar you can access from the Windows system tray. It also has buttons for performing quick system commands like toggling WI-FI and Bluetooth, setting quiet hours, or switching to tablet mode. Read This Article → How to Set Alarms and Timers on the Apple Watch Your iPhone can be used as an alarm clock, a stopwatch, and a timer. However, If you have an Apple Watch, you don't have to take out your phone to use any of these tools. Your watch has built-in apps that perform the same functions. Read This Article → How to Personalize Your Ad Settings in Hulu Love them or hate them, advertisements are a necessary part of online video services like Hulu. If you have to deal with ads, you might as well keep them relevant using Hulu’s Personalized Advertisement Experience settings. Read This Article → How to Set Your PC Games’ Graphics Settings with No Effort PC gamers have to set a myriad of graphics options to balance performance with graphics quality. If you don’t want to tweak them by hand, both NVIDIA and AMD provide tools that will do it for you. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 Security Essentials - The Ultimate Defense Kit (a $39.99 value!) Kit includes "Windows Malware Analysis Essentials" plus 3 other resources to help you understand network security. Click here to download