Is It Worth Upgrading to the Pixel 2? and More Google Announcements

Did You Know? An analysis of judicial rulings found that judges were more likely to issue harsher judgements right before lunch or well after lunch, and lighter judgements right after breakfast or lunch, strongly indicating that hunger and blood sugar levels played a role in their decision making. Geek Trivia When Faced With A Choice Where The Only Options Are The First Choice Or Nothing, It’s Called A? Hobson's Choice → Door Number One → Model T Option → Fool's Dilemma → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Coding For Dummies No coding experience is required for Coding For Dummies, your one-stop guide to building a foundation of knowledge in writing computer code for web, application, and software development. Using foundational web development languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it explains in plain English how coding works and why it's needed. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Marquee Element) is a non-standard HTML element that causes a customizable string of text to automatically scroll across a portion of the webpage it has been embedded in, something the W3C has advised against using (due to usability problems). 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. All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Affected by 2013 Hack If you had a Yahoo account in 2013, and still use the same password for other accounts today, please: change it. Change it now. [The New York Times] The 2017 Nobel Prize in physics goes to the discovery of gravitational waves Great explainer on what gravity waves are, and how this year's Nobel Prize winners helped humans detect them for the first time. [Vox] Ikea's Space10 debuts a vertical farm for the home The Swedish furniture company is considering selling a hydroponic setup they dub "Space10." [Business Insider] Automated freight train with no one on board makes its first run A train crossed 100km of Australian outback with no driver on board. [Mashable] Is It Worth Upgrading to the Pixel 2? Well the day is finally here: the day Google brought to light its newest Pixel phones. While none of what was announced today was particularly surprising, it’s at least officially official. The real question here is, of course, should you buy a new Pixel phone? Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between the Google Home, Mini, and Max? In an effort to more closely compete with Amazon’s latest additions to its Echo lineup, Google unveiled the Google Home Mini and the Google Home Max. Here’s what you need to know about these new products and how they compare to one another. Read This Article → How to Leave the macOS Public Beta Now That High Sierra Is Out If you installed the High Sierra public beta over the summer, you might think you’re done now that High Sierra is officially released. But you’re not: odds are you’re still enrolled in the Apple Beta Software Program right now, meaning you’ll keep getting beta versions of macOS updates. Read This Article → How to Join Netflix’s Test Program and Try Out New Features Early Netflix frequently tests new features and designs on a small number of users before rolling them out to everyone. The company has tested things like a Skip Intro button or a mobile data saver feature weeks or months before anyone else gets them. If you want to be among the users that get to try out new features, here’s how to join Netflix’s test program. Read This Article → The Cheapest Ways to Stream NHL Hockey (Without Cable) If you’re like me, you watch hockey, and…basically no other sports. You also, like me, would like to skip the cable subscription. So what’s the cheapest way to watch NHL hockey online so you can cut the cord? Read This Article → How to Regain Control of a Hijacked Twitter Account Someone logged into your Twitter account, and that someone isn’t you. They’re probably a spammer hoping to inundate your followers with junk, or maybe a “hacker” (in a very loose sense) being paid to follow other accounts. It’s just possible that they’re intentionally targeting you and hoping to make you look bad. Whatever the circumstance, you want to kick them off your account on the double. Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Enable or Disable the Spell Checker on Android So everyone knows that their preferred keyboard on Android has autocorrect, but did you know Android also has built-in spell check? If you’re really looking to double down on your spelling—or perhaps get rid of autocorrect altogether—this is a setting you’ll probably want to enable. Read This Article → How to Change Your Country on Amazon So You Can Buy Different Kindle Books Book rights, and especially eBook rights, can be messy. UK publishers can't just start selling books in the US, and vice versa. For most modern books by big authors, you'll see the hardback and eBook versions being published at pretty much the same time around the world. For older books that were released before eBooks were a big deal, and for smaller authors with publishing deals, however, you'll regularly find that the eBook version is available in some countries and not others. Read This Article → How to Type Out Voice Commands for Siri If it’s too loud around you and you can’t adequately use Siri to quickly look up something real quick, there’s now an alternative to shouting out voice commands—you can now type them out. Here’s how to do it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Read This Article → How Safari’s New Intelligent Tracking Prevention Works It’s one of the most discussed new features in High Sierra: Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention. Advertisers are upset about it, claiming it’s “bad for the ad-supported online content and services consumers love.” Apple is undeterred by the rhetoric. But what does the feature actually do? Read This Article → How to Upgrade Your Smarthome Connections in Google Home Google is constantly updating its Google Home and smarthome lineup. Thanks to one recent update, you’ll need to unlink and relink some of your smarthome services in order to keep using them and take advantage of new features. Here’s how to do that. Read This Article → Not All Ethernet Cables Are Equal: You Can Get Faster LAN Speeds By Upgrading Wired connections, which use Ethernet cables, are generally faster and have lower latency than Wi-Fi connections. But, just as modern Wi-Fi hardware has advanced, modern Ethernet cables are capable of communicating at faster speeds. Read This Article → How to Disable GeForce Experience’s Reward Advertisements NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software now displays notification advertisements for free-to-play games. If you don’t want notification popups for games you’ve never played appearing when you’re just trying to use your computer, here’s how to disable them. Read This Article → How to Automatically Enable Wi-Fi When You’re Near a Trusted Network in Android Oreo You disable Wi-Fi on your Android phone to improve battery life, which is great! But how many times have you forgotten to enable it again, ultimately eating up some of your mobile data when you could’ve been on Wi-Fi? With Oreo, that fear is no more. Read This Article → How to Stop Your iPhone From Dinging Twice When You Get Text Messages By default, when you get an SMS or iMessage, your iPhone will make a sound once when you receive it, and then again two minutes later in case you missed it. If you read the message after the first ding, it doesn't ding again. Read This Article → How to Run Android on Windows With AMIDuOS There are an increasing number of ways to try out Android applications on your Windows desktop or laptop. But of the various methods I’ve sampled, none combined complete access to Android’s basic functions with ease-of-access quite like American Megatrends’ AMIDuOS. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Coding For Dummies No coding experience is required for Coding For Dummies, your one-stop guide to building a foundation of knowledge in writing computer code for web, application, and software development. Using foundational web development languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it explains in plain English how coding works and why it's needed. Click here to download