What's New in Windows 10's Fall Creators Update, Arriving Today

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How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Steam How to Take Good Photos of the Starry Sky What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Arriving Today How to Call and Message Friends Using Your Amazon Echo How to Disable Notifications During Video Playback on an Xbox One Your Wi-Fi Network Is Vulnerable: How to Protect Against KRACK How to Download Games to Your PlayStation 4 From Your Phone or PC How to Invert the Colors of Your iPhone's Screen The Amazon Prime-ification of Windows, and Everything Else, Is Coming Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Next Generation Network A Next Generation Network (NGN for short) is a telecommunications packet-based network capable of handling data, voice/audio, and multimedia traffic, encapsulating all of it in data packet form. 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. Google Fiber Gives Up On Traditional TV, And Won't Be The Last Company To Do So Small former cable companies around the country are dropping TV services altogether, offering only Internet and voice services. [Techdirt] Netflix to spend up to $8 billion on programming next year Shows don't come cheap. [CNN] Falling through the KRACKs - A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering How did such a big flaw get baked into every Wi-Fi connected device on the planet? [CryptographyEngineering.com] First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society Online dating is leading to stronger marriages. You read that correctly. [MIT Technology Review] How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Steam If you’ve been playing PC games in the last few years, the accumulated games in your Steam account are probably worth hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of dollars. Perhaps even more importantly, your Steam account might contain in-game items that can be traded for real-world cash…and thus, stolen with some very real consequences. So it’s a very good idea to apply Valve’s Steam Guard two-factor authentication to your account. Read This Article → How to Take Good Photos of the Starry Sky The night sky is breathtaking. If you go somewhere reasonably dark and let your eyes adjust, you can look up and see thousands of pin pricks of light, each one a star or galaxy that's millions of years old. I find it completely humbling. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Arriving Today Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, codenamed Redstone 3, will be released on October 17, 2017. Here are all the new features you’ll see in the latest version of Windows—and some big, splashy features Microsoft announced that never arrived. Read This Article → How to Call and Message Friends Using Your Amazon Echo Alexa is great to have for controlling your smarthome and asking various questions, but she can also call and message your friends and family. Here’s how it works and how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Disable Notifications During Video Playback on an Xbox One Notification pop-ups can get annoying when they appear over a video you’re trying to watch on Netflix. The Xbox One allows you to hide notifications while watching videos, preventing such distractions. Read This Article → Your Wi-Fi Network Is Vulnerable: How to Protect Against KRACK Today, security researchers published a paper detailing a serious vulnerability in WPA2, the protocol that keeps most modern Wi-FI networks secure—including the one in your home. Here’s how to protect yourself from attackers. Read This Article → How to Download Games to Your PlayStation 4 From Your Phone or PC PlayStation 4 games can be huge, and take hours to download. Thankfully, you can start downloading games even when you’re away from home. All you need is Sony’s official smartphone app, or a web browser on any PC. Read This Article → How to Invert the Colors of Your iPhone's Screen Apple goes to a lot of effort to make their iPhones as accessible for everyone as possible. One system option allows you to invert all the colors on the phone’s display, which is useful if you're sensitive to brightness, have certain kinds of color blindness, or just are in the dark. Here's how to enable it. Read This Article → The Amazon Prime-ification of Windows, and Everything Else, Is Coming Microsoft has been pushing Office 365, the $100-per-year Microsoft Office subscription, for years now. But the Windows Fall Creators update goes further. For the first time, non-Office Windows features will live behind the Office 365 paywall. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: The Evolutionary Leader In The Evolutionary Leader, Timothy J. Carroll, a world class athlete and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, shares 5 practical steps to dramatically develop people and performance. Click here to download