Perfect Computer Security Is a Myth. But It's Still Important

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Spend them before next year or they'll become useless. [Rolling Stone] How to Keep Track of Cosmetic and Event Items in Overwatch Overwatch is pretty great. As a multiplayer team shooter, it does almost everything right: plenty of variety, fast-paced gameplay, free hero and map updates, and unlike its spiritual ancestor Team Fortress 2, all players get immediate access to every weapon and technique. Read This Article → How to Add Live TV to the NVIDIA SHIELD with an HD Antenna It’s not much of a secret that you can get free TV by using an antenna to pull in nearby signals. But if you have an NVIDIA SHIELD, you can supercharge that experience by adding live TV to the SHIELD itself—and, for a small monthly fee, even add a full guide and DVR capabilities. Read This Article → If You Live In the EU, You Probably Have a Better Gadget Warranty The European Union has, in general, taken a far more hands-on approach to consumer rights than the US. If you're in the EU, you are probably entitled to a lot more recourse than you might think when something goes wrong with your gadgets. It’s not just the one-year warranty the manufacturer gives you. Read This Article → Perfect Computer Security Is a Myth. But It’s Still Important Maybe you’ve heard it before: “Security is a myth.” It’s become a common refrain after a never-ending string of high-profile security breaches. If Fortune 500 companies with million dollar security budgets can’t lock things down, how can you? Read This Article → How to Get TurboTax or H&R Block for Free with IRS Free File If you watch television, browse the web, or even listen to the radio, you’ve heard them: tax preparation apps promising to help you file your taxes for free. Try to actually use those apps, however, and it doesn’t take long before they ask you for money. Read This Article → How to Pair Multiple Android Wear Watches to a Single Phone When it comes to “regular” wristwatches, a lot of people have different watches for different activities. It makes sense—a sporty watch for the gym, a nicer watch for the office, and a casual watch for everything else. If you want to live this life with Android Wear, hooking up multiple watches to your main phone is a breeze. Read This Article → How to Autofill From a Password Manager on an iPhone or iPad Everyone should use a password manager, and third-party password managers like LastPass, 1Password, or Dashlane work better on an iPhone or iPad than you might think. You can directly autofill passwords on websites and apps using a share sheet action. It’s just hidden by default. Read This Article → Quiet Your PC’s Fans with Cheap In-Line Adapters Unless you’re constantly playing with one of those fidget cubes, your gaming PC is probably the loudest piece of equipment in your home office that doesn’t actually have a speaker. You could completely rebuild your PC into a efficient, low-power, water-cooled statement of subtlety…or you could buy these in-line adapters for a quick and cheap alternative. Read This Article → Check the Play Store’s Settings for Freebies You May Have Forgotten About Google likes to give away free things to people who use its products—free books, free movies, free music, and a lot more. While you can find these offers in the Google Home app, once you’ve accepted a freebie, it’s attached to your Google account and easy to forget about if you don’t use it immediately. Read This Article → How to Tell If a Facebook Competition Is a Scam A lot of Facebook Pages run competitions. Some of them are legitimate giveaways, while others are total scams designed to collect your personal information. Read This Article → Why Is My Internet So Slow? There are many reasons your Internet connection might appear slow. It could be a problem with your modem or router, Wi-Fi signal, signal strength on your cable line, devices on your network saturating your bandwidth, or even a slow DNS server. These troubleshooting steps will help you pin down the cause. Read This Article → Advertisement Free eBook: Hybrid IT for Dummies Hybrid IT consists of both cloud and on-premises data center infrastructure.This book helps you understand both sides of the hybrid IT equation and how HPE can help your organization transform its IT operations and save time and money in the process. Delve into the worlds of security, economics, and operations to show you new ways to support your business workloads!