What Is a Corrupted File, and Is There a Way to Get It Back?

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Build Your Own Computer, Part Four: Installing Windows and Loading Drivers How to See What’s Taking Up Space on Your Android Device How Secure Are Mesh Wi-Fi Networks? What Is a Corrupted File, and Is There a Way to Get It Back? How to Automatically Lock the Schlage Connect When You Leave the House How to Build Your Own Computer, Part Three: Getting the BIOS Ready What Is coreauthd, and Why Is It Running on my Mac? How to Search WhatsApp Chat Messages What Is a “Blockchain”? Today's Review Geek Articles LEGO Stocking Stuffers Of Course the Nintendo Switch Sold 10 Million Units Already Geek Comic Today's Tech Term VLSI VLSI (short for Very Large-Scale Integration) refers to the process of integrating or embedding hundreds of thousands of transistors on a single chip. 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. A New Kind of Soft Battery, Inspired By The Electric Eel The humble eel actually inspired the first battery, and now it might be inspiring the future. [The Atlantic] The Walt Disney Company To Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., After Spinoff Of Certain Businesses, For $52.4 Billion In Stock Disney now owns The Simpsons, Marvel, and Star Wars. Is there anything of our childhood left? [The Walt Disney Company] The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme Alarmists though the botnet might be part of a scheme to influence the US election, but turns out it was all about Minecraft. [Wired] How to Build Your Own Computer, Part Four: Installing Windows and Loading Drivers Much like configuring the BIOS, installing a new copy of Windows used to be a bit of a chore, but these days it’s been streamlined amazingly well. For most of it, you’ll simply follow the on-screen instructions, but feel free to keep this page open if you get stuck. Read This Article → How to See What’s Taking Up Space on Your Android Device When you picked up your shiny new Android device, you probably thought “yeah, this has plenty of storage. I’ll never fill it up!” But here you are, some number of months later with a full phone and no clue why. No worries: here’s how you can figure out where the space hogs are. Read This Article → How Secure Are Mesh Wi-Fi Networks? You’re considering a mesh Wi-Fi network, because you’re sick of that one spot in your house not getting any reception. But does the convenience of these systems come with the same security as other routers? Read This Article → What Is a Corrupted File, and Is There a Way to Get It Back? Corrupted files don’t happen too often on modern computers with good security measures in place. But when they do, it can be a nightmare. Let’s take a look at the common causes of corrupted files, how you can help prevent them, and what you can do when it happens. Read This Article → How to Automatically Lock the Schlage Connect When You Leave the House If your forgetfulness applies to locking your front door, you can have the Schlage Connect smart lock automatically lock behind you. So if you forget to lock it, you won’t have to worry about it in the first place. Read This Article → How to Build Your Own Computer, Part Three: Getting the BIOS Ready So you’ve carefully picked out some parts and built a computer, but it doesn’t really do anything…yet. Before we hop into installing your operating system, we need to take a quick look at the BIOS and prepare it for our operating system. Read This Article → What Is coreauthd, and Why Is It Running on my Mac? You’re looking through Activity Monitor to see what’s running on your Mac, when you notice something unfamilar: coreauthd. What is this process? First of all, it’s part of macOS, so don’t worry about it being nefarious. But here’s a quick look at what it does. Read This Article → How to Search WhatsApp Chat Messages Trying to find a specific message in your huge WhatsApp chat log? There are two ways to search, so you can find what you’re looking for quickly. Read This Article → What Is a “Blockchain”? If you’ve been watching the news lately, you might have heard about something called a blockchain. It’s a concept that makes data ultra-secure for specific uses. You’ve probably heard it in connection with Bitcoin, but it has applications far beyond everyone’s favorite cryptocurrencies. Here’s a quick explanation of how it works. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free Kit: The Essentials of IT Management The Essentials of IT Management – September 2017 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Management related decisions. 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