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Did You Know? There is a bridge in Costa Rica called “Backstab Bridge” by the locals since it was financed, designed, and primarily built by Taiwan to sweeten relations between Taiwan and Costa Rica, only to have Costa Rica end ties with the country in favor of a relationship with China. Geek Trivia Many Of John Hughes’ Films Take Place In The Shared Imaginary Town Of? Hill Valley, CA → Brookline, MA → Shermer, IL → Bueller, IN → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Make a Tabletop Studio for Perfect eBay or Craigslist Sale Photos How to Properly Test 911 Services on Your Cell Phone How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Arriving September 2017 [PRO] How to Backup / Export a Single Table from a MySQL Database [PRO] How to See Which MySQL Tables are Taking the Most Space Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Blawg Blawg (a combination of the words Blog and Law) is a slang term for online blogs that are written by lawyers or deal with topics related to the law. 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. Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery If we spend enough time in space the mundane but critical aspects of everyday life down here on Earth, like routine surgeries, will come along with us. [Wired] Zuckerberg and Musk are both wrong about AI During an impromptu Facebook Live interview, Zuck said there's no doomsday coming. [ArsTechnica] The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With YouTube Kids Surprise eggs and slime are at the center of an online realm that's changing the way the experts think about human development. [The Atlantic] Cheap Eames, Aeron and Barcelona chairs: Inside the trillion-dollar black market for fake designer furniture Last year, US customs officers seized over $4 million worth of fake chairs. It was the first year that the agency had ever seized containers-full of such unauthorized reproductions, thanks in part to a novel new training that's turning port inspectors into design connoisseurs. [Quartz] How to Catch Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go Since the game went online over a year ago, players of Niantic’s massively popular (and often frustrating) AR monster-catcher have wondered where all the legendary creatures are hiding in Pokémon Go. The original Game Boy title had massively powerful, interesting, and unique legendary Pokémon way back in the 90s, but the smartphone game launched without access to Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo, despite a heavy feature in the original trailer. Read This Article → How to Get Android’s System UI Tuner on Non-Stock Devices One benefit users of stock Android devices have had for the past few iterations of the OS is the System UI Tuner—a hidden menu that allows for extra customization of simple things like which icons are shown in the status bar, powerful notification controls, and more. Now, thanks to a new app (and a short workaround), you can have this menu on any Android device—not just ones running stock Android. Read This Article → What Is a “Fast” Camera Lens? Photography has a lot of confusing terminology, and often there are several ways to describe the same idea. One of the more annoying ones is when lenses are called "fast". How can a lens have a speed? If you drop two lenses, they'll both hit the ground (and break) at the same time. It's an old term, so let's find out. Read This Article → What's the Best Antivirus for Windows 10? (Is Windows Defender Good Enough?) Windows 10 won’t hassle you to install an antivirus like Windows 7 did. Since Windows 8, Windows now includes a built-in antivirus called Windows Defender (which used to be available separately as Microsoft Security Essentials). But is it really the best for protecting your PC–or even just good enough? Read This Article → Microsoft Paint Was Never Going to Die, But It Made for Good Headlines Some stories are simply too good not to be true. It’s an old adage in the media, something reporters knowingly say to each other when something is too fun, too good of a story, and too likely to go viral for anyone to fact check. You don’t want to be that guy, killing everyone’s buzz. Read This Article → How to Control Your Smarthome Products with the Amazon Echo The Amazon Echo can do a lot more than play music and check the weather. As futuristically as you'd expect, it can actually control a wide range of smarthome products so that all your home comforts are just a voice command away. Read on as we show you how. Read This Article → How to Find or Create an RSS Feed for Any Website If you’re still a dedicated RSS user, you’ve no doubt noticed some sites no longer go out of their way to cater to you. Where once an RSS logo would be prominently displayed, now it’s nowhere to be found. How are you supposed to find RSS feeds? Read This Article → Domino’s Pizza Sucks, So Why Can’t Anyone Else Top Their Tech? For years, I’ve dreamed of having an Emergency Pizza Button that will automatically order a pizza for me with a single tap. I’m not the only one with this dream. There have been countless innovations in pizza ordering technology in recent years…but they’ve all been from Domino’s. Which sucks, because they have the worst pizza. Why can’t other pizza companies catch up? Read This Article → How to Make a Tabletop Studio for Perfect eBay or Craigslist Sale Photos So you’ve decided to flex your mercurial muscles and start selling products online. High-quality photos are a simple way to attract more buyers, and contrary to what you might think, they don’t require thousands of dollars in equipment. With a simple photo tent and some lights, even a decent smartphone camera can take great photos of small-to-medium objects. Read This Article → How to Properly Test 911 Services on Your Cell Phone Recently, OnePlus owners got a scare when users discovered the new OnePlus 5 would reboot upon trying to call to 911 emergency services. Other Android users then showed up to say the same thing happened to them—many on non-OnePlus phones. The last thing you need is for your phone to not work when you need it most, so here’s the right way to test 911 services on your phone to make sure it actually works. Read This Article → How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms Twitter threads (aka tweetstorms) might be widely hated, but they are a big part of the Twitter experience. Since you're most likely going to do them, you might as well do them right. Here's how. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Arriving September 2017 Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, codenamed Redstone 3, will be released in September 2017. Here are all the new features you’ll see in the latest version of Windows—and some big, splashy features Microsoft announced that never arrived. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.Click here to download