Browser Extensions Are a Privacy Nightmare: Stop Using So Many of Them

Did You Know? The first pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series, entitled “The Cage”, was completed in 1965 and, although segments of the pilot’s footage were later incorporated into the first-season two-parter “The Menagerie”, it was not broadcast in its complete form until late 1988. Geek Trivia A Common Theme In Low-Budget Animation Is Characters With? Collars → Static Eyes → Three Finger Hands → Tri-Coloration → Advertisement Download Virtualization Essentials, 2nd Edition ($21 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This eBook takes a learning-by-doing approach to give you hands-on training and a core understanding of virtualization. Second Edition provides new and aspiring IT professionals with immersive training in working with virtualization environments. Clear, straightforward discussions simplify complex concepts, and the hands-on tutorial approach helps you quickly get up to speed on the fundamentals. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Dilberted Dilberted is a slang term used to refer to an individual who has been exploited, oppressed, and/or otherwise treated badly by their boss at work. (Derived from the comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.) 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. How Information Got Re-Invented The story behind the birth of the information age. [Nautilus] Elon Musk issues a stark warning about A.I., calls it a bigger threat than North Korea Tesla's billionaire CEO renewed his critique of artificial intelligence, saying that if you're not concerned, 'you should be.' [CNBC] The world's best Dota 2 players just got destroyed by a killer AI from Elon Musk's startup - The Verge Tonight during Valve's yearly Dota 2 tournament, a surprise segment introduced what could be the best new player in the world -- a bot from Elon Musk-backed startup OpenAI. [The Verge] Can Real Life Compete With an Instagram Playground? Spaces like the Museum of Ice Cream and the Paul Smith Pink Wall offer a perfect setting for a highly shareable image—and that's it. What happens to art, or travel, or the outside world in general when taking a photograph becomes an experience itself? [The Ringer] The Best Comic Book Readers for Windows, Mac, and Linux Comic books as a medium seem tailor-made for tablets, even if the timeline doesn’t precisely add up. But there are a surprising amount of comic reading applications meant for old-fashioned desktop machines, too. This stuff comes in handy for gadgets that blur the lines, like the Microsoft Surface, or for someone who’s amassed a large collection of DRM-free comic book files. Read This Article → How to Get Sideloaded Apps to Show Up in FreeTime Profiles on Fire Tablets Amazon’s Fire Tablets are an excellent choice for inexpensive kids’ tablets, and the FreeTime Profiles work really well to keep things sandboxed so little ones can’t run rampant throughout the OS. The only problem is that if you sideload apps on the Fire HD, they can’t be accessed from the kids’ profiles. Fortunately, there’s a workaround. Read This Article → How to Stop Getting Notifications Every Time Someone Posts in a Facebook Group Facebook groups are a great way for societies, organizations, or just groups of like minded people to communicate. Unfortunately, by default, you'll get a lot of notifications. Read This Article → Browser Extensions Are a Privacy Nightmare: Stop Using So Many of Them Browser extensions are much more dangerous than most people realize. These small tools often have access to everything you do online, so they can capture your passwords, track your web browsing, insert advertisements into web pages you visit, and more. Popular browser extensions are often sold to shady companies or hijacked, and automatic updates can turn them into malware. Read This Article → Five Hidden Amazon Echo Features Worth Checking Out The Amazon Echo is packed with tons of useful voice commands, but not all of them are obvious. You can also interact with Alexa from other devices or services, which is even less obvious. Here are some of the most useful features you can try out both on the device and while you’re away from your Echo. Read This Article → How to Schedule Automatic Maintenance on Windows 10 (and What It Does) Windows 10 automatically performs system maintenance tasks like security scanning and disk optimization on a schedule. By default, Windows runs these tasks every day at 2 AM and wakes up your PC to do it if it’s sleeping. Read This Article → How to Disable the “Quick Access” Shortcuts in Google Drive Recently, Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive that makes it easier to quickly access recently-opened or recently-edited files by displaying them at the top of the Google Drive page. However, if you want to disable this feature, you can do so easily. Read This Article → How to Reset Your How-to Geek Trivia Score (and Feel Less Dumb) My co-worker Jason is a jerk. Don’t get me wrong: I’m a big fan of his work and he’s probably the most agreeable person I could even hope to work with. But his trivia questions constantly make me feel like a moron. Even worse, the site keeps track of my failure, constantly reminding me of how many questions I’ve gotten wrong. Read This Article → How to Give Your Family Members an Automatic Amazon Gift Card Allowance When your kids move away to go to school, they’ll probably phone home every once in a while to ask for money. If they shop a lot on Amazon (and they probably do), you can expedite that process by setting up an automatically recurring deposit into their Amazon Gift Card balance. Here’s how to set yours up. Read This Article → How to Map Network Drives From the Command Prompt in Windows Mapping a network drive to a shared folder from Windows’ graphic interface isn’t hard. But if you already know the network path for the shared folder, you can map drives a lot quicker using the Command Prompt. Read This Article → A Real iTunes Alternative for Windows – 8 New Features to Master iPhone [Sponsored Giveaway] Complaints about iTunes have never stopped since its initial release and will continue if Apple has no intention of making some changes. Owing to various stubborn iTunes errors, particularly more in Windows, more and more people prefer to switch to an alternative to manage and transfer iOS files. Read This Article → How to Use Windows 10’s Built-In Photos App As a fairly versatile operating system, Windows has always had ways of browsing and viewing photos. But with Windows 10, Microsoft decided to try and mash browsing, organizing, and viewing all together in one application, with some basic editing to boot. The result, the innocuously-titles “Photos” app, can be less than intuitive. Read This Article → How to Block Someone on the PlayStation 4 or Pro Sometimes the social aspect of modern game consoles can be great. Other times, it can be annoying—especially if someone is only there to act as a troll. Fortunately, you can easily block people right from your PlayStation 4, leaving you to game in peace. Read This Article → How to Replay a Snapchat Snap It's really annoying when you someone sends you a Snap and as you view it, you get distracted, look away and miss the message. This happens to me more often than I'd like to admit. The good news is you can replay every Snap you receive exactly once. Read This Article → How Much Better Are Aftermarket CPU Coolers Than Intel’s Stock Coolers? Building a gaming PC is an expensive proposition, even on the “value” side of things—we’re talking about at lest $500 for a new machine. Penny-pinchers often forego unnecessary extras. And since most CPUs come with a cooler right in the box, why bother with a big bulky aftermarket cooler, especially if you’re not going to overclock anything? Read This Article → Advertisement Download Virtualization Essentials, 2nd Edition ($21 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This eBook takes a learning-by-doing approach to give you hands-on training and a core understanding of virtualization. Second Edition provides new and aspiring IT professionals with immersive training in working with virtualization environments. Clear, straightforward discussions simplify complex concepts, and the hands-on tutorial approach helps you quickly get up to speed on the fundamentals. Click here to download