How Much Better Are Aftermarket CPU Coolers Than Intel's Stock Coolers?

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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History Once upon a time the BBC archived very little in an attempt to manage costs [Mental Floss] Airline Workers Warn of Dangerous Fumes Onboard That rank odor on your plane may not be what you think. [Bloomberg] Meet Patagotitan, the Biggest Dinosaur Ever Found At 69 tons with eight foot femurs, a newly discovered dinosaur is setting records [The Atlantic] 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 → How to Use a Physical Keyboard With Your iPad or iPhone Your iPad and iPhone come with on-screen touch keyboards, but there's nothing stopping you from connecting a good old fashioned physical keyboard and typing on that. Here’s how to get started. Read This Article → How to Control Spotify and Vox With Your MacBook’s Touch Bar By default, you can control your music with your Mac’s Touch Bar only if you use iTunes. Players like Spotify and Vox aren’t supported as of this writing. And even iTunes doesn’t offer that much functionality on the Touch Bar. But we’ve got a fix for that. Read This Article → How to See the Edit History of Any Facebook Post or Comment It’s pretty easy to edit Facebook posts. While that’s handy when you’re doing the editing, it can trip you up if you’re replying to someone who will edit their post later. To avoid embarrassment or trolling, Facebook lets you see the edit history of any post that’s been changed. Read This Article → How to Use Virtual Desktops in Windows 10 Windows 10 finally added virtual desktops as a built-in feature. If you keep a lot of apps open at once—or use your PC for very different types of tasks—virtual desktops offer a convenient way to stay organized. Read This Article → Microtransactions in AAA Games Are Here to Stay (But They’re Still Terrible) This weekend, while most of the technology and gaming press wasn’t working on anything particularly important, Warner Bros. Interactive tried to slip a small news item past their attention. Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, the highly-anticipated sequel to the Tolkien-themed adventure game Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, will include microtransactions. This $60 game—up to $100 USD if you spring for the special pre-order versions—will ask players to pay even more in bite-sized chunks to unlock some of its content faster. Read This Article → How to Download a Backup Archive of All Your Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and Other Google Data Everyone who uses Google services knows that Google has copies of your data—your search history, Gmail, YouTube history, and so much more. But did you know you can also download a copy of this data for yourself? Yep, and it’s stupid easy. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Live Photos on Your iPhone or iPad Live Photos are one of Apple's more interesting innovations. They're like a GIF with sound. While they're quite good at capturing the feel of a photo by turning it into a quick video, they also take up a lot more space than a regular photo. Unless you're a big fan of the feature, it might be better to leave them off by default. Read This Article → How to Install and Test Windows 10 S Microsoft’s stripped-down Windows 10 S is now shipping on PCs like the Surface Laptop. If you want to try it before you buy, you can install it yourself in a virtual machine or a PC you have lying around. 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. 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