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Did You Know? In America, when an unknown person needs a name (such as the unidentified body of a victim in a crime), the person is called “John/Jane Doe”. Around the world, there are other similar place holder names like Anders Andersen or Jens Jensen (Denmark), Jan Jansen (The Netherlands and sometimes in Belgium), Jean Dupont (France), Max/Erika Mustermann (Germany), Pera Perić (Serbia), and Juan Pérez or Juan Piguave (Ecuador). Geek Trivia In 1983, Which One Of These Product Categories Was Gutted By A Market Crash? Breakfast Cereals → Roller Skates → Fireworks → Video Games → Advertisement Want to make extra money on your schedule? Sign up to drive with Uber—you use your own car to give people rides around town and you get paid instantly with Instant Pay. It's super flexible—you can drive day or night, 24/7. Just hop in your car, turn on the app, and you'll get a pickup request from a rider. Want to take the first step in turning your unemployment stress on its head? 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Warren Buffett loves Apple because consumers are psychologically attached to the iPhone Buffet: "You are very, very, very locked in, at least psychologically and mentally, to the product you are using. [The iPhone] is a very sticky product." [Quartz] Why a Tiny Kentucky Firm Rules a Corner of the Crypto Market How a small holding company became an important part of the Bitcoin ecosystem. [Wired] How Tiny Red Dots Took Over Your Life Red dots were useful at some point, but they've been simply a source of stress for ages now. How did this happen? [The New York Times] Google Says It's Received 2.4 Million Takedown Requests Under EU's 'Right to Be Forgotten' Laws They only took down around 43 percent of the requests, but it's still a lot of information scrubbed from search. [Gizmodo] Electricity demand is flat. Utilities are freaking out. A combination of efficiency gains, outsourced heavy industry, and home solar panels makes this a tough time to be selling electricity in the USA. [Vox] Google’s Reply App Will Soon Bring Smart Replies to Other Apps A rather intelligent feature named Smart Replies has made its way to various Google apps, including Gmail, recently. Reply is a standalone app that brings smart replies to many different messaging apps on Android. Read This Article → Bluetooth 5.0: What's Different, and Why it Matters Modern smartphones and other devices, from the iPhone 8 and iPhone X to the Samsung Galaxy S8, advertise support for “Bluetooth 5.0” on their specifications list. Here’s what’s new in the latest and greatest version of Bluetooth. Read This Article → How to Move Multiple Apps at Once on iOS Apple doesn't really believe in detailed instruction manuals, so some handy tricks slip through the cracks. One such trick we've recently discovered is that you can move multiple app icons at once on iOS. Here's how. Read This Article → How to Disable Your iPhone’s CPU Throttling in iOS 11.3 Apple has come under fire recently for admitting that they throttle CPU speeds on iPhones with old batteries. After a fair amount of pressure from both the media and customers, the company is including a way to disable this throttling in iOS 11.3, which should be available in the next few weeks. Read This Article → Should You Buy Apple’s HomePod? The $350 HomePod smart speaker is Apple’s extremely-late answer to Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home voice assistant speakers, but is it a product that’s worth your hard-earned cash? Read This Article → Samsung Galaxy S8 vs Galaxy S9: Is It Worth Upgrading? The Galaxy S9 and S9+ are officially official, and there’s a lot to take in. They seem to be mostly incremental updates over their predecessors, so the question on a lot of people’s minds: is it worth upgrading if you already have the S8? Read This Article → How to Edit Your Pictures Using macOS’ Photos Lots of Mac users use Photos for sorting and browsing photo collections. It syncs easily with your iPhone, recognizes faces, and even sorts your photos into Memories. What you might not know is that Photos is also now a decent tool for editing photos. Read This Article → How to Use a Chromecast as a Quick Information Dashboard If you’ve got a Google Chromecast, why not make mornings easier by turning your TV into a dashboard that shows you things like local weather and traffic, news, and even your to-do list? Read This Article → Google Assistant's Routines Will Soon Automate Multiple Commands How nice would it be to walk through the front door and say “Hey Google, I’m home” to have the lights turn on, the thermostat set, and the TV turn on and fire up Netflix? With the upcoming “Routines” feature for Google Assistant, that will be a reality. Read This Article → What is a Color Profile? Color profiles define the colors we capture with our cameras and see on our displays. They control what colors are used and help provide consistency between devices. Read This Article → How to Check if Your Password Has Been Stolen Many websites have leaked passwords. Attackers can download databases of usernames and passwords and use them to “hack” your accounts. This is why you shouldn’t reuse passwords for important websites, because a leak by one site can give attackers everything they need to sign into other accounts. Read This Article → Advertisement Want to make extra money on your schedule? Sign up to drive with Uber—you use your own car to give people rides around town and you get paid instantly with Instant Pay. It's super flexible—you can drive day or night, 24/7. Just hop in your car, turn on the app, and you'll get a pickup request from a rider. Want to take the first step in turning your unemployment stress on its head? Sign up to drive with Uber here!