What's Coming in Windows 10's Redstone 4 Update, Available March 2018

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[Ars Technica] The Follower Factory: a look at the companies that sell fake social media followers In-depth investigation of the companies that sell fake social media followers to celebrities and public figures. [The New York Times] Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases Strave released a map that showed where everyone on earth like to exercise. Pretty! Turns out doing that exposes secrete military bases. Oops. [The Guardian] Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted Every unencrypted site will soon have a little red X over its lock in the Chrome address bar. [Motherboard] How to Automatically Mute New Tabs in Chrome and Firefox Let’s say you’re trying to be quiet, browsing the internet at home, work, or a public space. You’re secretly filled with dread that anything you click will open a new tab with an autoplay video or blare an obnoxious audio ad. End that fear forever by keeping all your new tabs muted by default. Read This Article → How to Add Phonetic Names to Contacts in Android (So Google Assistant Can Understand You) As great as Google Assistant is, it’s not always the best at pronouncing people’s names. Fortunately, you can add phonetic names to improve voice recognition. Read This Article → How to Turn Live Photos into Animated GIFs on Your iPhone I'm a pretty big fan of Apple's Live Photos that combine an image, video, and audio into a single file. Unfortunately, it can be a little awkward to share the full experience with anyone who doesn't have an Apple device. Read This Article → What’s Coming in Windows 10’s Redstone 4 Update, Available March 2018 Microsoft is hard at work on Windows 10’s next update, codenamed “Redstone 4”. This is Windows 10 version “1803”, which means it will likely launch sometime in March 2018. Read This Article → How to Avoid Malware on Android Android may have a more open platform than Apple, but with that comes the potential for malware. Google is trying to take steps to correct it with things like Google Play Protect, but it’s still out there. WIth a little bit of care, though, it’s pretty easy to keep your phone safe and malware-free. Read This Article → The Best Apps and Tools for Chromebooks You have a shiny new Chromebook and you want to make the most of it. Good! Despite popular belief, Chromebooks are in fact excellent productivity machines—especially once you find the proper tools for the job at hand. Read This Article → How to Connect the Nest Secure to a New Wi-Fi Network If you ever change your Wi-Fi password or the name of the network, you’ll also need to connect your Nest Secure security system to that new network. Luckily, it’s really easy. Read This Article → How to Make LibreOffice Writer Templates Templates let you configure all the relevant settings you want pre-applied to documents—font settings, margins and tabs, boilerplate text, and so on. You just open the template and save it under a new name to get a jump start on a new document. Read This Article → How to Fix Android MMS Issues on Cricket Wireless If you’re on Cricket Wireless and use an Android phone, there’s a reasonably decent chance you could be having issues receiving MMS messages (aka picture and video messages). Fortunately, there’s a quick and easy fix…now that we’ve actually figured out what’s going on here. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between the iPad, iPad Pro, and iPad Mini? Apple's iPad line has gotten pretty hefty, between the 12.9-inch and 10.5-inch iPad Pro, the (blandly named) iPad, and the iPad Mini 4. They range from $329 all the way up to $1279. So what's the difference between all these models? Let's take a look. Read This Article → Cheap Windows Laptops Will Only Waste Your Time and Money You get what you pay for. And, while you will save money in the short term by buying a cheap Windows laptop, you’ll pay for it in time, frustration, and ultimately money when you have to pay to replace or fix the laptop after it breaks. Read This Article → Advertisement Manage Your Credit Score for $9.95/month Get Credit Monitoring for ONLY $9.95/month Sign Up Now and Get a Free 3-Bureau Report and Scores!