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Did You Know? Stars, planets, and galaxies that can be seen today are estimated to be only roughly 4 percent of the universe with the other 96 percent composed of dark matter and other elements astronomers are forced to quantify by inference. Geek Trivia Many Xbox 360 Owners, Desperate To Fix The “Red Ring Of Death” Failure, Resorted To Wrapping Them In? Towels → Aluminum Foil → Cold Cuts → Duct Tape → 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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How to Leave the macOS Public Beta Now That High Sierra Is Out How to Join Netflix’s Test Program and Try Out New Features Early The Cheapest Ways to Stream NHL Hockey (Without Cable) How to Regain Control of a Hijacked Twitter Account How to Enable or Disable the Spell Checker on Android How to Change Your Country on Amazon So You Can Buy Different Kindle Books Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Mashboard A Mashboard (a.k.a. Real-Time Dashboard) is a Web 2.0 managerial tool set that allows businesses to analyze/present data, look up inventory, accept orders, and perform other tasks without the need to access transaction systems (using a mixture of quantitative, qualitative, and interactive data). 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 Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money Steemit is both a social network and a cryptocurrency. If your posts do well, you earn virtual currency. [Wired] Sundar Pichai says the future of Google is AI. But can he fix the algorithm? Google is all in on AI, but can the company get things right? [The Verge] The Computer That Predicted U.S. Would Win the Vietnam War A cautionary tale about over-relying on data. [The Atlantic] How to Set Up BitLocker Encryption on Windows BitLocker is a tool built into Windows that lets you encrypt an entire hard drive for enhanced security. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Use the One-Handed Keyboard on Your iPhone With iOS 11, Apple added a one-handed keyboard option to the iPhone. This should make it easier to type while holding a larger iPhone in a single hand. Both right-handed and left-handed keyboards are available. Read This Article → Facebook Messenger Lite Is a Great Alternative to Facebook Messenger Facebook Messenger is a really popular communication app. It's only real downside is that it's incredibly bloated. On my Moto E4, it weighs in at just under 60MB, which makes sense—not only does it have all the messaging features that you want, it also has audio and video calling (nice), chat heads (alright), a Snapchat Story clone (why?), games (not that you knew), and lots more under the hood. Read This Article → What Are NVIDIA MAX-Q Laptops? If you’re looking for a new Windows-based laptop and you’re somewhat interested in performance, you might come across models that are marketed as “featuring “NVIDIA MAX-Q.” But that description is somewhat nebulous: MAX-Q isn’t a specific NVIDIA graphics card, or even a hardware feature at all. So what exactly does this description mean, and does it make a gaming-grade laptop any more desirable than a non-Q laptop? Read This Article → 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 → 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