Windows 10 May Delete Your Programs Without Asking, But You Can Get Them Back

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Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle is the name of a layout pattern designed specifically for data warehouses that helps to manage the flow of air so that the servers and associated equipment remain as cool as possible while lowering energy and management costs. 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. Ignoring Stuff is Good for Your Memory That's because a distracted brain is a forgetful brain [Scientific American] The Last Strong Part of Nintendo's Business Is In Trouble Nintendo has dominated the handheld gaming market for decades, but that market is looking less certain by the day. [Motherboard] Why you probably shouldn't be doing work on that in-flight Wi-Fi Gogo Wireless, other in-flight services can be even worse than the usual public Wi-Fi. [ArsTechnica] Your checking account is probably easier to hack into than your email Few passwords are as important as those that protect your finances. So you'd expect banks to require the most secure login credentials on the web, but that is largely not the case. [Quartz] Minecraft's latest update brings significant changes to combat The new Minecraft update includes new weapons, cool downs, blocks, and an totally overhauled End dimension. [Polygon] How-To Geek Is Looking for New Writers Think you have the perfect combination of geek knowledge and writing skills? We're looking for a few experienced writers to join our team. Read This Article → How to Print a Worksheet with Comments in Excel You've added comments to your worksheet, and now you want to print it out–with those comments intact. However, Excel doesn’t print comments by default. Here are two ways to do it. Read This Article → How to Choose a USB Wi-Fi Adapter for Your Laptop If you’ve bought a laptop within the past five years, it probably has a decent Wi-Fi card installed already. But if you’ve been experiencing a shoddy connection, spent too long waiting for Netflix to buffer, or missed that last fireball because of lag, then it might be time to consider adding on an external USB Wi-Fi adapter instead. Read This Article → Windows 10 May Delete Your Programs Without Asking When you install a major Windows 10 update, you may reboot to find some of your programs missing. Yes, Windows 10 may remove your programs without asking you–but you can get them back pretty easily. Read This Article → How to Combine Different HomeKit Products Into Rooms, Zones, and Scenes There’s a very curious short coming in the Apple HomeKit system: HomeKit supports combining your smarthome devices into rooms, zones, and scenes, but if a given app doesn’t support one of those things, you’re out of luck. And no smarthome apps let you create scenes with multiple products from different companies. Enter the Home app, which solves both these problems. Read This Article → How to Quickly Change Safari’s Default Search Engine in OS X Are you tired of digging into Safari’s settings to change the default search engine? Dig no more, there’s a much easier way! If you like to use different search engines, or just don’t want to use Google, then there’s a much quicker way to change it from the location bar. Read This Article → How to Search for Files from a Certain Date Range in Windows 8 and 10 Say you’re searching for a file, and you know it was last modified during a certain period of time. You can limit your searches to date ranges in Windows, but it’s not immediately obvious. Read This Article → How to Skip the “Send as Text” Prompt for Messages on the Apple Watch The Apple Watch allows you to send text messages with your voice through the Messages app. But every time you do, it’ll ask you whether you want to send a message as text or as a voice recording. Here’s how to get rid of that prompt. Read This Article → Solve YouTube’s “Spacebar Problem” with These Keyboard Shortcuts Does this sound familiar? You start to watch a video on YouTube, and want to pause it. So you press the spacebar on your keyboard, but rather than pause the video, you randomly jump down the page instead. Read This Article → What’s the Best Way to Back Up My Computer? Everyone loses data at some point in their lives. Your computer’s hard drive could fail tomorrow, ransomware could hold your files hostage, or a software bug could delete your important files. If you’re not regularly backing up your computer, you could lose those files forever. 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