What Are “Right to Repair” Laws, and What Do They Mean for You?

Did You Know? The International Space Station is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of approximately 17,200 miles per hour (27,600 kilometers per hour) and, as a result, astronauts on board experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets per day as their travel speed zips them around the globe once every 90 minutes or so. Geek Trivia The First Handheld Game System To Use Interchangeable Cartridges Was The? Nintendo Game Boy → Milton Bradley Microvision → TurboGrafx Turbo Express → Atari Lynx → Advertisement Download The Essentials of IT Security - 2018 Kit Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. The Essentials of IT Security – 2018 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Security related decisions.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast What Are "Right to Repair" Laws, and What Do They Mean for You? How to Control Your Amazon Echo from Anywhere Using Your Phone How Do YouTube Channels Make Money? How to Take Screenshots of Your PC Games How to Play Wii and GameCube Games on your PC with Dolphin How to Stream Your PC Gameplay to Twitch With NVIDIA GeForce Experience Are Third Party Camera Lenses Worth Buying? Do You Realize How Much You Share Your Location? Today's Review Geek Articles Google Flights Will Now Tell You If Your Flight Is Likely to Be Delayed My Stupid Cats Won’t Use This $450 Litter Robot, But Maybe Yours Will Two Ex-Googlers Want Nuro, a New Self-Driving Car, to Handle Your Deliveries Change Your Smartphone Case Like You Change Your Clothes Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Dissolve Dissolve (a.k.a. Video Dissolve, Film Dissolve, Linear Light Blend, and Soft Cut) is a graphics/video editing effect and website design technique where an image/video or webpage smoothly transitions (gradually fades) into the next image/video or webpage as the former one fades out. 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. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies — including bitcoin and ICOs Given the number of scams out there it was only a matter of time. [Recode] Google Play removed 700,000 bad apps in 2017, 70% more than in 2016 Machine learning is helping with moderation, according to Google, allowing them to find copycat and malicious apps faster. [Venture Beat] Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Link Up to Form New Health-Care Company The new entity will provide insurance exclusively to the one million employees of those three companies. [Bloomberg] Google is using AI to predict flight delays Google will attempt to notify you of a flight delay before the airlines do. [Engadget] How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast VLC's developers have been working on Chromecast support for some time, and it's finally available…sort of. It still hasn't made it to the stable release of VLC yet, but if you run the bleeding edge nightly builds on Windows, you can stream video and audio files from VLC media player on your PC to your Chromecast. Read This Article → What Are "Right to Repair" Laws, and What Do They Mean for You? Ever wonder why it’s so difficult to repair a smartphone, computer, or game console yourself? It’s no accident: companies make them that way. But thanks to “Right to Repair” legislation, it could get a lot easier to tinker with your electronic toys. Read This Article → How to Control Your Amazon Echo from Anywhere Using Your Phone If your Amazon Echo can't hear you from the other room, or if you just want to control it when you're away from home altogether, you can do so with the Amazon app (on iOS) or the Alexa app (on Android). Read This Article → How Do YouTube Channels Make Money? Most people are aware that popular YouTube channels make money, but it’s not immediately obvious how. And there’s a reason for that: the answer isn’t straightforward. Read This Article → How to Take Screenshots of Your PC Games Ever wish you could grab an image of what you’re seeing in that beautiful new video game? Well you can—in fact, some tools even let you pause the game and take a screenshot using a free-moving, in-game camera. Read This Article → How to Play Wii and GameCube Games on your PC with Dolphin Ever wish you could play Wii and GameCube games on your PC? Just like your favorite retro systems, there’s an emulator that can do the job, and it’s called Dolphin. Read This Article → How to Stream Your PC Gameplay to Twitch With NVIDIA GeForce Experience NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software has a built-in game streaming feature. If you have NVIDIA graphics hardware, you don’t need any additional software to stream on Twitch, Facebook Live, or YouTube Live. Read This Article → Are Third Party Camera Lenses Worth Buying? When people buy a Canon or Nikon camera, they often assume that they can only buy Canon or Nikon lenses. But that isn't true. While Nikon lenses won't work on your Canon camera, there are third-party lens manufacturers—such as Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Samyang (also sold as Rokinon), Opteka, Yongnuo and Zeiss—that make lenses for Canon, Nikon, and sometimes Sony and other cameras. But are they any good? Read This Article → Do You Realize How Much You Share Your Location? This app is tracking your every move!—a hyperbolic headline I’m sure we’ve all seen before. While the sentiment here is a over-the-top, it does raise an important question: do you know how private your location actually is? Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Essentials of IT Security - 2018 Kit Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. The Essentials of IT Security – 2018 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Security related decisions.Click here to download