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Did You Know? Honey crisp apples were developed by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station’s Horticultural Research Center at the University of Minnesota in 1974 and has, thanks to runaway popularity, generated over 10,000,000 dollars in patent royalties for the school. Geek Trivia Eccentric Billionaire Howard Hughes Once Bought An Entire Casino In Order To? Convert It To A Bowling Arena → Disable Its Sign → Live On The Top Floor → Shutter Its Rooftop Bar → Advertisement Download Free Kit: The Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Amazon Just Announced Five New Echos, Here’s What They All Do How to Hide the App Icons at the Bottom of iMessage for the iPhone How to Create a Bootable USB Installer for macOS High Sierra How to Get Twitter’s New 280-Character Limit Now Disable User Account Control (UAC) the Easy Way on Win 7, 8, or 10 How to Overhaul macOS' Spotlight Search Using Alfred How to Take Screenshots on an Android Phone or Tablet How to Save Original Photos With Instagram What’s the Difference Between OLED and Samsung’s QLED TVs? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Link Farming Link Farming refers to the sometimes questionable process of trading/exchanging reciprocal links with other websites in order to boost one’s own SEO (Search Engine Optimization) page rank in search engine results. 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. New Gravitational Wave Detection From Colliding Black Holes The two black holes combined have the mass of 53 suns. [The New York Times] The Coming Software Apocalypse 911 calls stopped working in several states because of a software glitch in 2014. That's not acceptable. [The Atlantic] A single Tesla Powerpack battery saved this Australian town over $1.5 million in grid connection costs Logan City, in Queensland, installed a solar panel array on their water treatment plant, and almost connected it to the grid for power at night. Tesla's Powerpack was much cheaper. [Electrek] How QWERTY conquered keyboards Lots of people believe QWERTY became the standard to avoid jamming, but the real reason is a lot more complex, as this video lays out. [Vox/YouTube] Can Other People See the Tweets I’ve Liked? You might think that Retweets are public and Likes are private. This makes sense, in a way: anything you Retweet is instantly pushed to your followers, and Twitter doesn’t make it clear at all what happens when you Like a tweet. Read This Article → How to Quickly Transfer Files from a Computer to Your Phone with Portal We’ve all had that moment where we need a file on our phone that happens to be on the computer. Now, there are a couple of ways you can do this: email it to yourself, put it in cloud storage like Dropbox, or even transfer it with a USB cable. But there’s a faster, easier way. Enter Portal. Read This Article → How to Stop the IMDB App from Sending You Notifications Recently, the IMDB app started sending out notifications for "Featured Trailers". As near as I can guess, this is where the production company pays IMDB to push a link to the trailer to a load of people in an effort to promote it. If IMDB isn't being paid, they're just annoying their fans for no reason. Whatever their reason, here’s how to turn these notifications off. Read This Article → Why Do Some Websites Have Pop-Up Warnings About Cookies? If you spend any time at all on the web, you’ve probably come across a fairly normal site that seems strangely concerned about cookie education. You’ll see a pop-up that warns you that yes, the site uses cookies…just like almost every other page on the web. If the warning seems redundant and ineffectual, you’re not the only one to think so. But some people think it’s necessary, and those very specific people are in the European Union. Read This Article → Amazon Just Announced Five New Echos, Here’s What They All Do At a surprise event in Seattle today, Amazon announced multiple new Echo models—some similar to the original Echo, and others very, very different. Here’s every Echo you can buy right now, and what the difference between them all is. Read This Article → How to Hide the App Icons at the Bottom of iMessage for the iPhone A new feature in iOS 11 gives you quicker access to iMessage Apps at the bottom of the screen, but if you never use them in the first place, they’re just annoying. Here’s how to hide them. Read This Article → How to Create a Bootable USB Installer for macOS High Sierra The Mac App Store is the default way to upgrade or install macOS, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Maybe you’ve got multiple Macs and a limited amount of bandwidth, and don’t want to download the entire operating system for every system. Or maybe you’re looking to install the operating system from scratch. Read This Article → How to Get Twitter’s New 280-Character Limit Now In case you haven’t heard, Twitter is testing out a longer 280-character message limit, doubling the restriction that’s been in place since the service started back in 2006. Initially, the longer limit is only available to a few select accounts during the testing period, but intrepid users have discovered how to access the new feature. Read This Article → Disable User Account Control (UAC) the Easy Way on Win 7, 8, or 10 If you’ve been using Windows for a while, you likely remember how annoying the User Account Control (UAC) was when it first popped up in Windows Vista. We showed you back then how to disable it, and you can still disable it in Windows 8 and 10. Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Overhaul macOS' Spotlight Search Using Alfred Spotlight Search on macOS has gotten a lot better over the last few years, but there’s still so much potential that’s missing. Enter Alfred, which is similar to Spotlight Search, but on some major steroids. Read This Article → How to Take Screenshots on an Android Phone or Tablet Sometimes it’s necessary to grab a still image of what’s happening on your device’s screen—that’s called a screenshot. While this used to be a hassle on Android (many moons ago), all modern handsets include the capability. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Save Original Photos With Instagram Instagram, as well as being a fun social network, is now a pretty decent editing app. You're no longer just slapping over-the-top filters on low resolution images; now you can actually make considered edits. Instagram only posts photos with a max resolution of 1080x1080px, though. The photos most smartphones take are much higher quality than that. If you want the original photo resolution with your Instagram edits applied, you need to save them elsewhere. Here's how. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between OLED and Samsung’s QLED TVs? Organic light-emitting diodes, abbreviated as OLED, are all the rage for high-end HD televisions. The technology has jumped from phones and tablets to larger screens, and its vibrant colors and “perfect” black levels make for amazing picture quality. But it isn’t the only player in town. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free Kit: The Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download