| 1967 and 1983 were great years for James Bond fans—the film franchise spans over fifty years, but those two years are the only ones that saw two film releases within the same year, Casino Royale and You Only Live Twice in 1967 and Octopussy and Never Say Never Again in 1983.  | |
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 Most manufacturers and carriers offer some sort of trade-in program for old phones when you buy a new one. The thing is, you can get a lot more money if you just sell your phone yourself. Read More »
|  Backups and redundancy schemes are both data protection methods, but they are not interchangeable. Join us as we explore what makes them different, and why that’s important to you. Read More »
|  Using an online backup service to back up your computer is not only convenient, it protects your data against big incidents like theft, fire, and natural disaster. There are lots of backup services out there, but we like Backblaze and IDrive the best. Read More »
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| A Peripheral Device is any computer device that is externally or internally connected to a computer’s CPU. Examples of Peripheral Devices are: printers, keyboards, monitors, mouse devices, scanners, hard disks, external drives, graphics tablets, etc. | |
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| The small metal boxes (in a variety of colors like brown, black, red, and white) found attached to the walls of public buildings all over the United States are called Knox Boxes (though manufactured by different companies, the Knox company produces the bulk of them) and are designed to give emergency responders access to building keys (or functions like disabling power or gas lines, or turning off sprinkler systems in case of a false alarm) to aid in rapid entry in the event of an emergency.  | |
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 With April Fool's Day coming up, now is the time to start thinking about some good ways to play pranks on your friends. One of our favorites is to create fake screenshots of the news. Let's look at how to do it. Read More »
| | Using an online backup service to back up your computer is not only convenient, it protects your data against big incidents like theft, fire, and natural disaster. There are lots of backup services out there, but we like Backblaze and IDrive the best. Read More »
|  iPhone and iPad apps have to get your permission to send notifications, but it’s still easy to end up with a noisy phone that won’t stop buzzing. Here’s how to get only the notifications you care about. Read More »
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This new section contains our commentary on what we're reading from around the web. It's like a daily digest of the things we found interesting in the world of technology.
Your MyFitnessPal Account Was Almost Certainly Hacked, Change Your Password Now
 If you’re one of the millions of the 150 million MyFitnessPal users, bad news: hackers have your email address, your user name, and your hashed password. Read More »
Timestamps Shares Twitter Videos Starting at a Certain Time
![]() Android/iPhone/iPad: Live videos can be long, which makes sharing a particular moment tricky. Timestamps is a new Twitter feature that fixes that. Read More »
Up Next Shows Your Calendar Appointments in the macOS Menu Bar
 macOS: If you’re the kind of person who forgets what’s on your calendar, it helps to put reminders everywhere. Up Next is a free tool that does just that. Read More »
How Tech Companies Use ‘Dark Patterns’ To Trick You
![]() Websites like Amazon, Facebook, and Google don’t just appear: people make them. Everything about their design is intentional, is serving some kind of purpose—and sometimes those designs deliberately make things hard in order to change your behavior. Read More »
TV Ad Spending Is Down Because of Cord Cutting
![]() Cord cutting isn’t a fad. Millions of people really are changing their habits, and it’s having a profound impact. Read More »
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Perigee | |
| In the context of satellite communications, Perigee refers to the point in a satellite's elliptical orbit where it is closest to the Earth. See Apogee. | |
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