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Did You Know? The smallest saxophone, at a scant 12 inches (30 centimeters) long without the mouthpiece, is the sopranissimo. It’s a particularly difficult instrument to play due to the extremely small mouthpiece and requires a small, focused embouchure in order to access the full musical range of the instrument (its upper register in particular). Unsurprisingly, it is an uncommon instrument with very little market demand. Geek Trivia The Term “Gerrymandering” Originated In Which U.S. State? Florida → New York → Massachusetts → California → Advertisement Find and Delete Duplicate Files the Easy Way If you want to find and clean up files the easy way, there's no better tool for the job than Duplicate Cleaner Pro 4. It's easy to use and chock full of features. Download a free trial and see for yourself whether you like it. Download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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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. How Many People Watch Netflix? Nielsen Tries to Solve a Mystery Netflix does not share how many people watch its show with Nielsen, so they're trying to use audio recognition to compile numbers. [The New York Times] The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare That company that sponsors every podcast is sueing bloggers into oblivion. [Fast Company] Congress may try to regulate political ads on Facebook (FB) like those on broadcast television Right now there's basically no rules about political advertising online, even though TV and radio ads are tightly regulated. [ Quartz] What Can You Do With Samsung’s Bixby? It seems like every technology company under the sun is working on a voice-controlled assistant to go up against the likes of Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, and Apple’s Siri. Samsung’s branded version gets a boost from the company’s massive smartphone market share and a somewhat less-than-graceful inclusion of an extra hardware button on its latest models. But what all can Bixby do, and how is it different from its erstwhile competitors? Read This Article → How to Use a Limited Color Palette for Better Photos Color is one of the most important aspects of photography. It can make or break your images. It’s great when nature gives you great color to work with, but you also need to deliberately manipulate colors in your photos, both while you're shooting and in post-processing. Read This Article → What’s New in Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”, Available Now After quite a few unexciting releases, Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” is full of huge changes. Ubuntu Phone is dead, and so is Ubuntu’s dream of a converged desktop. Ubuntu’s developers are no longer working on Unity 8, and Ubuntu 17.10 ditches the old Unity 7 desktop for GNOME Shell. Read This Article → How to Train Alexa to Recognize Different Voices (and Give More Personalized Answers) Your Amazon Echo can finally recognize and differentiate voices from different household members. Here’s how to set it up in the Alexa app on your phone. Read This Article → How to Quickly Make a Mac Photo Slideshow With Preview When you double-click a photo in the Windows file browser, you can use the arrow keys to quickly browse every photo that folder. Open a photo in Preview on macOS, however, and pressing the arrow keys does nothing. This makes it hard to have a quick slideshow. Read This Article → Microsoft: Please Name Windows 10 Updates After Dogs We need to talk, Microsoft. Windows 10 is great, and we’re loving all the new features we get every six months or so. Gold stars all around. Read This Article → Announcing Review Geek: A Better Solution for Tech News and Reviews People think of How-To Geek as a place that helps them understand how to do things, or how to understand technology, and sometimes that involves specific products or services. But as a general rule, people don't think of HTG in conjunction with products or tech news. So today, we welcome Review Geek to the family. Read This Article → How to Use “My People” on Windows 10’s Taskbar Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update includes the “My People” feature originally promised for the first Creators Update. You can now pin up to three of your favorite people to the taskbar and quickly chat with them on Skype or send them emails. Read This Article → How to Disable Haptic Feedback Vibrations on Your iPhone The iPhone 7 and 8 don't have a physical home button. Instead, the feel of pressing a button is recreated by what Apple calls the Taptic Engine. When you touch the home button, the Taptic Engine sends out a small vibration. It feels really like pressing an actual button. Read This Article → How to Protect Your Files From Ransomware With Windows Defender’s New “Controlled Folder Access” Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update includes a new Windows Defender feature designed to protect your files from ransomware. It’s named “Controlled Folder Access”, and it’s disabled by default. You’ll need to enable it yourself if you want to try it out. Read This Article → Advertisement Find and Delete Duplicate Files the Easy Way If you want to find and clean up files the easy way, there's no better tool for the job than Duplicate Cleaner Pro 4. It's easy to use and chock full of features. Download a free trial and see for yourself whether you like it. Download