It’s Windows 10 update time! The so-called “Anniversary Update” marks a year since the OS officially made it out of Redmond and it’s the biggest update yet. We’ve already posted our initial impressions of the update, but with the hefty patch now rolling out for everybody, here are 12 new tricks to try on your Windows 10 machine. Read more…
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12 Things You Can Now Do With Windows 10 After the Anniversary Update
Time Machine is a great service for backing up your computer, and by default it doesn’t use much CPU power to do it. That’s great most of the time, but sometimes you need to get stuff backed up as soon as possible. Defaults-Write points out the Terminal command for doing so. Read more…
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Temporarily Speed Up a Time Machine Backup With a Terminal Command
We finally got another trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last night, and it was packed full of new stuff—including, of course, Darth Vader. We’ve gone through it with a magnifying glass and all of our nerdery to see what secrets and details are hiding inside it. Read more…
In 2012 the Macbook Pro Retina wasn’t so much the next stage of laptops as it was a fun oddity by Apple. It was a workstation, designed to handle grueling video and photo editing tasks with aplomb, but it was missing some workstation musts, like a DVD drive or Ethernet port. Instead it was thinner and lighter than a traditional Macbook Pro, had a gorgeous 1800p display, and was outfitted with a solid state drive. Read more…
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Apple’s Best Laptop Is Four Years Old
If you’re counting on technology to radically extend your lifespan , you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s happening with the Greenland shark. According to a new scientific paper , this mysterious deep-sea dweller can live up to 400 years, making it the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. Read more…
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A 400-Year Old Shark May Hold the Cure to Aging
Most of the photos taken of Saturn these days are in drab black and white . But this infrared view of Saturn from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is a stunning reminder of this ringed planet’s spectral vibrance. Read more…
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Saturn’s Oil Drop Surface Looks Incredible Through an Infrared Lens
The big news about the Raspberry Pi 3 was built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi , but it turns out there was another set of new tricks: new boot options. This feature’s still in beta, but over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, they outline how to boot from a mass storage device or over ethernet. Read more…
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You Can Boot a Raspberry Pi 3 From a Hard Drive or Over Ethernet
Delta Airlines flights around the world have been indefinitely delayed this morning following a major “computer outage” affecting all of the carriers flights. Read more…
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Delta Flights Grounded Worldwide After Unexplained Computer Shutdown (Updating)
“Mike” (portrayed above) is a real person and his email party is now over. Authorities announced today that a 40-year-old Nigerian man, identified only as Mike, was nabbed in a joint operation by Interpol and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission. Mike was reportedly the mastermind behind a large number of online scams, and officials suspect him of swindling more than $60 million from people around the world, including $15.4 million from one victim alone. Read more…
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Interpol Just Busted a Nigerian Email Scam Kingpin
Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade offer officially ended yesterday . However, the company has left a loophole. If you need to use assistive technologies, you can still upgrade for free. Microsoft also isn’t verifying if you do. Read more…
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You Can Still Get Windows 10 For Free If You Use Assistive Technologies