Why Does NVIDIA Store Gigabytes of Installer Files On Your Hard Drive?

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Load Balancing can also refer to transferring/redirecting excess activity to the next available server or network device as needed. 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. Inside Uncle Sam's Secret Bitcoin Hoard The US government seizes a lot of cryptocurrency during raids, and they have to sell it. Here's how that works. [Forbes] Spotify lost $1 million from a scam that didn't break any laws The scammers paid for 1,200 Spotify accounts, uploaded 500 thirty second songs, then listened to those songs 24/7 with the accounts. [Quartz] 1Password Integrates With 'Pwned Passwords' to Check if Your Passwords Have Been Leaked Online The anonymized list is from Troy Hunt of "Have I Been Pwned" fame. We expect other password managers will do the same thing. [Mac Rumors] How a fight over Star Wars download codes could reshape copyright law Redbox is selling download codes that come with the DVDs they buy; Disney sued. A California judge wasn't having it. [ArsTechnica] How To Use Excel-Style Spreadsheets in Microsoft Word Like peanut butter and chocolate, a word processor with some basic spreadsheet chops makes a fantastic combination. When you want some rather easy number-crunching embedded in an otherwise ordinary text document, Microsoft Word has you covered, thanks to baked-in functionality from its sister program Excel. Read This Article → How to Monitor Your Android Device’s Battery Health Battery health is a big deal—perhaps now more than ever, with the whole iPhone slowdown debacle. While that in itself doesn’t necessarily have any bearing on Android phones, keeping your device’s battery health in mind is never a bad idea. Read This Article → Why Your Facebook Photos Look So Bad (And What You Can Do About It) Facebook is a popular platform for sharing photos, even though it's not a very good one. They prioritize fast loading images over high quality ones. You can’t stop it from happening, but you can minimize the quality loss. Read This Article → Why Does NVIDIA Store Gigabytes of Installer Files On Your Hard Drive? If you’re a gamer (or just a PC user) with NVIDIA graphics, NVIDIA’s drivers are probably wasting gigabytes of storage on your hard drive. NVIDIA leaves old installer files buried on your hard drive until you get annoyed and manually delete them…if you even realize you need to. Read This Article → How to Send GIFs in iMessage You’ve always been able to send static images to other people through iMessage, but you might not have known that you can also send animated GIFs as well. Read This Article → How to Sum Numbers Across Different Tables in LibreOffice Writer LibreOffice Writer can handle some of the very basic tools that are part of Calc (the LibreOffice version of Microsoft Excel) with its Table function. For example, to sum up the contents of multiple cells and place the total in a new cell, you use the exact same formula, “=sum<[cellstart]:[cellfinish]>. Read This Article → How to Get Free Movie Rentals and Other Rewards from Your Chromecast or Google Home Google has done a good job making a name for itself in the hardware game, and I’m not talking about the Pixel phones here—I’m talking about Chromecast and Google Home. Both devices are useful, affordable, and among the best at what they do.  Read This Article → How to Configure Bitmoji and Snapchat If you've used Snapchat, you'll probably have noticed that some of your friends have a cartoon profile picture that they can also include in different Snaps. This is a "Bitmoji". Lets look at how to set one up to use with Snapchat. Read This Article → Why You Shouldn’t Use Firefox Forks Like Waterfox, Pale Moon, or Basilisk Mozilla Firefox is an open source project, so anyone can take its code, modify it, and release a new browser. That’s what Waterfox, Pale Moon, and Basilisk are—alternative browsers based on the Firefox code. But we recommend against using any of them. 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!