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Did You Know? Despite its prevalence in action movies and war films, pulling a grenade pin with your teeth is a terrible idea—the pins are difficult to pull on purpose and require a strong pull to dislodge. Geek Trivia The Only Film Where Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny Appear Onscreen Together Is? Space Jam → Who Framed Roger Rabbit → Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue → Here's To You, Mickey Mouse → Advertisement Download Learn Linux in 5 Days In this eBook, you will learn the most important concepts and commands, and be guided step-by-step through several practical and real-world examples. As new concepts, commands, or jargon are encountered they are explained in plain language, making it easy to understand. The most important material is condensed into five sections, each designed to be consumed in a day.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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[Wired] How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised. [Nautilus] The Cheapest Cordcutting Plans for NFL Football Fans Football season is almost upon us. That means one thing: expensive cable or satellite TV packages. Okay, it also means beer commercials and overpriced stadium tickets and quarterbacks trying to sell you car insurance. But in terms of immediate costs, premium TV is up there. Read This Article → How to Disable Google Assistant (or At Least Take Its Shortcut Back) Google Assistant should be available on basically all modern Android phones at this point, but not everyone loves it. If you find yourself disliking Assistant more than you use it, you have some options: you can change how you use Assistant, or you can disable it completely. Read This Article → What Is “Medium Format” in Photography? Before the rise of digital photography, things were a lot less standardized. There were countless films available in different sizes that you could shoot on cameras from a dozen different manufacturers. Read This Article → Do I Really Need Antivirus If I Browse Carefully? Whenever antivirus software is mentioned, someone always seems to chime up and say they don't need an antivirus because they're “careful”, and “common sense is all you need”. This isn't true. No matter how smart think you are, you can still benefit from an antivirus on Windows. Read This Article → How to Turn Photos Into “Memories” on Your iPhone The Photos app on iPhone and iPad automatically arranges the photos and videos you take into “Memories.” But you don’t have to stick with the automatic selections—you can create your own Memories, too. Read This Article → How to Store Leftover Paint the Right Way Painting is one of those home improvement activities that we’ve all done at least once, and while it’s relatively easy to do, storing the leftover paint afterward can become somewhat of a fine art. Read This Article → How to Use Your Computer’s Hosts File to Block Tons of Malware, Porn, and Other Types of Websites Whether you’ve given a computer to your child or just want to keep things clean on your own machine, blocking sites that serve malware, porn, social networking, and gambling en masse is useful. And while there’s lots of third party software out there for the job, the hosts file is a built-in option for every major operating system. Read This Article → How to Turn On Facebook’s Data Saver Tool If you spend a lot of time on Facebook, you can burn through your mobile data pretty quickly just scrolling past pictures and autoplaying videos. To limit the damage, turn on Facebook’s Data Saver tool. Read This Article → What Is EA’s Origin Access, and Is It Worth It? EA’s Origin Access gives you access to more than 70 games, discounts, and new EA games before they’re released for a monthly (or yearly) subscription fee. But is it really worth it? Read This Article → How to Add Wireless Charging to Almost Any Phone Fret not, wireless charging aficionados. Even though fewer phones support it out of the box, you do have options for adding wireless charging to your high-end phone—though admittedly, maybe not as many options as you’d like. Read This Article → How to View and Delete Your Google Maps History on Android and iPhone If you’re anything like me, you use Google Maps a lot. The thing is, it keeps a detailed history of everywhere you’ve been—regardless of whether you’ve used navigation or not. Here’s how to delete that data. Read This Article → How to Use Instagram’s New Face Filters Over the past two years, Instagram has slowly been cloning Snapchat. Now, they've added Snapchat's last great feature: Face Filters. Here's how to use them. Read This Article → 10 Useful Windows Commands You Should Know There are some things you can only do from the command line—even in Windows. Some of these tools don’t have graphical equivalents, while others are just plain faster to use than their graphical interfaces. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Learn Linux in 5 Days In this eBook, you will learn the most important concepts and commands, and be guided step-by-step through several practical and real-world examples. As new concepts, commands, or jargon are encountered they are explained in plain language, making it easy to understand. The most important material is condensed into five sections, each designed to be consumed in a day.Click here to download