| Macaws and other parrots in the western Amazon basin of Peru congregate along exposed river banks to gather the clay found there, which they eat later in nearby trees. Researchers are unsure why they do so, but believe that the inland birds eat the clay to supplement their diet with salt.  | |
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 Tech publications are screaming today that giving Facebook your phone number for 2FA allows them to target you for ads. But this misses a bigger point: Facebook is using your phone number to target ads whether you give it to them willingly or not. Read More »
|  The Oculus Quest is an impressive piece of hardware, but there’s so much more to come. Virtual reality is just getting started. Here’s what has us most excited. Read More »
|  Your IP address is like your public ID on the internet. Any time you do anything on the internet, your IP address lets servers know where to send back information you’ve requested. Many sites log these addresses, effectively spying on you, usually to deliver you more personalized ads to get you to spend more money. For some people, this is a significant issue, and there are ways to hide your IP address. Read More »
|  You’ve spend some time researching a product on your phone, then you open your laptop and find ads for that product plastered all over the place. This has happened to everyone—it’s called targeted advertising, and there are steps you can take to reduce its effect on you. Read More »
| REVIEW GEEK  With the new Roku Premiere and Premiere+ hot off the presses, there’s never been a better time to get a 4K Roku streaming box. The bigger question is: which one is right for you? Read More »
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| Swivel Chair Interface is a slang term that refers to manually entering data into one computer system, then manually entering the same data into another computer system (i.e. swiveling one’s chair around from one computer to the other). | |
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| The crew of Apollo 11 took two tiny pieces of the Wright Flyer, the first plane successfully flown by the Wright Brothers, to the moon with them. The two items were a small piece of the left wooden propeller and a piece of cloth from the upper left wing.  | |
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 Outlook lets you create and customize folder views in many ways, like adding and removing columns or grouping and sorting messages. You can also apply rules to make Outlook display messages in different ways based on their properties (like the sender, subject line, or timestamp). This is called conditional formatting. Let’s take a look at how it works. Read More »
| | Your IP address is like your public ID on the internet. Any time you do anything on the internet, your IP address lets servers know where to send back information you’ve requested. Many sites log these addresses, effectively spying on you, usually to deliver you more personalized ads to get you to spend more money. For some people, this is a significant issue, and there are ways to hide your IP address. Read More »
|  We’ve known for a while that the latest update for Windows 10, codenamed “Redstone 5”, was going to be released in October, but now we have a nearly confirmed date: October 2nd, 2018, the same day that Microsoft is holding an event to talk about their new Surface products. Read More »
|  If you’re looking for the best VPN for torrenting, privacy, bypassing censorship, staying anonymous online, getting around geographic restrictions, or just location shifting, you’ve got a lot of confusing choices. Keep reading as we help you pick the right VPN for you. Read More »
| REVIEW GEEK  You’d like to get into the drone sensation, but you don’t want to break the bank to do it. Don’t worry: there are plenty of options in the $100-300 range that include everything you need. Read More »
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Kids Can, and Will, Work Around Any Parental Restrictions You Set Up
 Kids are easily working around Apple’s parental control system Screen Time, finding various ways to do what they want regardless of restrictions set up by their parents. Read More »
Check Out This Virtual Tour of the Garage Where Google Started
 Google is 20 years old today, and to celebrate Google Maps added the garage where the company was founded to Street View. You can check it out right now. Read More »
Plex is Killing the Plugin Directory, Here’s How to Install Plugins Yourself
 Plex is shutting down its plugin directory, but will continue to support manually installed plugins “for the foreseeable future.” Read More »
Windows 10’s October Update (Redstone 5) Will Be Released on October 2nd
We’ve known for a while that the latest update for Windows 10, codenamed “Redstone 5”, was going to be released in October, but now we have a nearly confirmed date: October 2nd, 2018, the same day that Microsoft is holding an event to talk about their new Surface products. Read More »
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