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Did You Know? Crepuscular animals are creatures that are most active during twilight (the period of dawn, dusk, or both) instead of being primarily active during daylight hours (diurnal) or the depths of the night (nocturnal). Geek Trivia The English Dialects Found Within Ireland Are Collectively Referred To As? Dublinish → Hiberno-English → Limerick-English → Gaelic-English → Advertisement Download Free Kit: The Essentials of IT Management The Essentials of IT Management – September 2017 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Management related decisions. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Connect an Xbox One Controller to Windows with Bluetooth How to Block Text Messages from a Certain Number on an iPhone How to Find Compatible Lenses for Your Canon or Nikon Camera How Much Free Space Should You Leave on Your Windows PC? How to Stream Every NFL Game Live, Without Cable Three Ways Chromebooks Are Better Than PCs or Macs Four Simple Timers That Remind You to Take Breaks from Your Computer How to Remove HomeKit Devices from Your Apple HomeKit Home The Best Free Video Channels for Your Roku How to Offer or Ask For Help During An Emergency With Facebook How to Disable the “Is Displaying Over Other Apps” Notification on Android Oreo The Best Unofficial Twitter Apps for Android What Is the System Reserved Partition and Can You Delete It? How to Require Moderator Approval for Posts in Your Facebook Group How Do Windows Defender’s “Automatic Sample Submission” and “Cloud-Based Protection” Work? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Hot Key A Hot Key (also written as Hotkey) is a key or key combination (sometimes user-defined) that will execute a particular command or cause a particular funtion to occur. 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. The New iPhone Will Complete Apple's War on Buttons The iPhone has always managed to eschew buttons—but will we miss the click? [The Ringer] Why Self-Driving Cars Need Superhuman Senses An Israeli startup has developed a new way for autonomous vehicles to perceive the world. [Wired] Why science-fiction writers couldn't imagine the internet. Game-changing real-world discoveries defy prediction. [Slate] How to Connect an Xbox One Controller to Windows with Bluetooth The latest version of the Xbox controller—the one included with the Xbox One S and the upcoming One X—includes Bluetooth! Microsoft finally included Bluetooth along with the older proprietary Xbox wireless connection, so Windows users can hook it up without an extra dongle. Here’s how to connect it to your Bluetooth-equipped laptop or desktop. Read This Article → How to Block Text Messages from a Certain Number on an iPhone Sometimes you get spam messages on your phone. Sometimes people are annoying. Sometimes you just need to block people. The good news is doing that on your iPhone is easy. Read This Article → How to Find Compatible Lenses for Your Canon or Nikon Camera Buying lenses for your camera isn't always simple. The two major manufacturers, Canon and Nikon, both have different options depending on whether you're getting a lens for a full-frame or crop sensor camera. Even if you've got a Canon camera, you can't be sure that any Canon lens will work. Read This Article → How Much Free Space Should You Leave on Your Windows PC? It’s a bad idea to fill a Windows system drive completely full, and this could cause a variety of problems. But just how much empty space do you really need? Read This Article → How to Stream Every NFL Game Live, Without Cable Fall is on its way, which can mean only one thing: football is back! Wouldn’t it be nice if you could watch whatever NFL game you want without being subject to the whims of your local cable company, though? Read This Article → Three Ways Chromebooks Are Better Than PCs or Macs Look, I’m not trying to start a war here, but hear me out: Chromebooks are awesome. In fact, I prefer mine to my Windows PC for nearly every use. Why? Because I think it’s a better system. Let’s talk about why. Read This Article → Four Simple Timers That Remind You to Take Breaks from Your Computer Whether you work at your computer or just enjoy the occasional long gaming session, it’s important to take breaks regularly. Getting up to take a walk, grab a coffee, or do some stretches helps reduce eye strain, prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI), and is otherwise just plain good for you. And one study from the University of Illionoise at Urbana-Champaign shows that breaks might even enhance productivity by increasing focus. Read This Article → How to Remove HomeKit Devices from Your Apple HomeKit Home Whether you no longer have the HomeKit accessory in question or simply need to remove a phantom entry in your HomeKit home, it’s simple to do so—if you know where to look. Let’s remove a HomeKit device now and guide you through the process. Read This Article → The Best Free Video Channels for Your Roku If you’ve got a Roku, odds are you’ve already connected your Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon account for streaming. You probably know that you can buy movies and TV episodes on other services too, like Google Play. But there is a lot of free content on the Roku too…if you know where to look. Read This Article → How to Offer or Ask For Help During An Emergency With Facebook Facebook’s Safety Check is most well known for letting people know you’re safe during an emergency. However, if you’re in the affected area of a disaster and you need help or want to offer to help others, you can find people using it, too. Here’s how to find help or volunteer. Read This Article → How to Disable the “Is Displaying Over Other Apps” Notification on Android Oreo Back in Android Marshmallow, Google introduced a feature that allowed apps to display on top of other apps. Things like Facebook Messenger and Twilight take advantage of this feature to be able to essentially run on-screen at the same time as other foreground applications. Read This Article → The Best Unofficial Twitter Apps for Android Services that offer public APIs often get their best tools from third-party developers. Social platform Twitter is no exception: almost anyone who uses Twitter professionally will have TweetDeck on their desktop, which started out as an independent tool before Twitter acquired the project. Read This Article → What Is the System Reserved Partition and Can You Delete It? Windows 7, 8, and 10 create a special “System Reserved” partition when you install them on a clean disk. Windows doesn’t normally assign a drive letter to these partitions, so you’ll only see them when you use Disk Management or similar utility. Read This Article → How to Require Moderator Approval for Posts in Your Facebook Group By default, any member can post anything they want in your Facebook Groups. This means they could post horribly offensive content, and while you can remove it, it might be a while before you get to it. Read This Article → How Do Windows Defender’s “Automatic Sample Submission” and “Cloud-Based Protection” Work? Windows 10’s integrated Windows Defender antivirus has some “cloud” features, like other modern antivirus applications. By default, Windows automatically uploads some suspicious-looking files and reports data about suspicious activity so new threats can be detected and blocked as quickly as possible. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free Kit: The Essentials of IT Management The Essentials of IT Management – September 2017 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Management related decisions. 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