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How to Stream UFC 241 Cormier vs. Miocic Live Online

It’s been just over a year since Daniel Cormier won the UFC heavyweight championship with a KO punch to Stipe Miocic. Saturday, August 16, Cormier is set to defend that title against Stipe. Here’s how to watch....

Walter Glenn Aug 17th

Microsoft Will Update Notepad Through Windows 10’s Store

Microsoft just can’t stop updating Notepad. Every Windows 10 Update now includes improvements to Notepad, from support for Unix-style line endings to Bing searches and performance improvements. Now, Microsoft is set to ...

Chris Hoffman Aug 16th

Windows 10 Will Show GPU Temperature in the Task Manager

Windows 10’s Task Manager is getting better for gamers. In Windows Insider build 18963, the Task Manager now shows your GPU temperature. This will be part of Windows 10’s 20H1 update, which will become stable some...

Chris Hoffman Aug 16th

How to Use Virtual Desktops on Chrome OS

Google is finally adding virtual desktops to its repertoire of Chromebook features—something other major operating systems already have—with Chrome OS version 76. The function has been in testing for several month...

Brady Gavin Aug 16th

How People Are Tweeting From Pretend Devices

Have you seen the news? A “teen girl” went viral for tweeting from an “LG Smart Refrigerator” when her mother took away her phone. But that was fake—there’s no LG Smart Refrigerator with a ...

Chris Hoffman Aug 15th

How to Apply for the Apple Card

Apple announced its own credit card at the beginning of 2019. Now, the Apple Card is available for a growing number of people. Here’s how to apply to get your hands on Apple’s titanium credit card....

Justin Duino Aug 15th

Daily News Roundup: Huawei Unveils HarmonyOS for IoT Devices, Not Phones

After being placed on the U.S. government’s Entity List, it wasn’t clear what Huawei would do without access to Android. The company claimed that it had an operating system in the works in case that day came....

Justin Duino Aug 9th

How to Install the Linux 5.0 Update on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Canonical just released Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, which features Linux kernel 5.0. This kernel, also found in Ubuntu 19.04, includes improved hardware support and performance tweaks. But, if you installed the original Ubuntu 18.04 ...

Chris Hoffman Aug 9th

How to Stop Companies From Listening to Your Voice Assistant Recordings

It’s been in the news for weeks: Employees and contractors at Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are listening to recordings of you talking to voice assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana. Here’s...

Daily News Roundup: The iPhone Battery Replacement Issue

At the end of 2017, Apple acknowledged that it throttled older iPhones to prolong the life of the device. iOS 11.3 rolled out in early 2018 and added a “Battery health” section to the iPhone’s Settings menu....

Justin Duino Aug 8th

Daily News Roundup: AT&T Employees Were Bribed into Unlocking Millions of Phones

The Department of Justice unsealed a case against 34-year-old Muhammad Fahd yesterday, alleging that the man bribed AT&T call-center employees to unlock cell phones fraudulently. The multi-year scheme resulted in employee...

Justin Duino Aug 7th

Daily News Roundup: Hackers Are Using IoT Devices to Break into Enterprise Networks

Back in April, Microsoft researchers noticed that some of its enterprise customer’s internet-of-things (IoT) devices were communicating with servers in Russia. Further investigation found that several VOIP phones, prin...

Justin Duino Aug 6th

Why Free OTA TV Beats Cable on Picture Quality

It sounds ridiculous, but free broadcast TV offers noticeably higher visual quality than expensive cable. But they both operate at a 1080p resolution, so what gives? Why does a simple antenna get you a better picture than pri...

Daily News Roundup: You Can Disable Human Review of Alexa Recordings

Recent reports have surfaced claiming that Amazon, Google, and Apple have been providing select employees with audio recordings from the respective smart assistants. Each business confirmed the practice but claimed the human ...

Justin Duino Aug 5th

Daily News Roundup: Amazon Dashed Your Dash Button

Amazon stopped selling Dash buttons, saying Alexa shopping killed any need for them. But if you already owned a Dash button, it still worked. But that’s changing as Amazon will stop fulfilling Dash orders after August....

Josh Hendrickson Aug 2nd

Why I Switched From Ubuntu to Manjaro Linux

For more than a decade, Ubuntu was my Linux distribution of choice. But, for the first time in a long while, I distro-hopped. I now run Manjaro and couldn’t be happier. It’s just that good!...

Chrome Now Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in Addresses. Do You Care?

Google Chrome 76, released a few days ago, has a surprising change: It hides the www. and https:// for website addresses in the omnibox, or address bar. This comes after an outcry when Google tried this back in Chrome 69....

Chris Hoffman Aug 1st

Some Windows 10 Users Are Trapped in S Mode

Windows 10’s S Mode won’t let you install software from outside the Store or even change Edge’s default search engine. If you purchased a Surface Go this week, you’ve likely been trapped in S Mode....

Chris Hoffman Aug 1st

Daily News Roundup: 32 Million Patient Records Breached in Just Six Months

Protenus, a healthcare analytics firm, says hackers and other bad actors breached 32 million patient records in the first six months of 2019. That’s double the total breaches for all of 2018.

Josh Hendrickson Aug 1st

Should You Pay Up If You Get Hit by Ransomware?

It might be your worst nightmare. You turn on your PC only to discover it’s been hijacked by ransomware that won’t decrypt your files unless you pay up. Should you? What are the pros and cons of paying off cyber-criminals...

Daily News Roundup: Google Discloses iOS “Interactionless” Vulnerabilities

Google, through its Project Zero initiative, disclosed six vulnerabilities in iOS. In each case, a hacker could execute remote code on someone’s iPhone without any interaction by the user. Apple’s iOS 12.3 fixes f...

Josh Hendrickson Jul 31st

Daily News Roundup: Capital One Was Hacked, Exposing 106 Million Customers

If you applied for a Captial One credit card between 2005 and 2015, we have bad news for you. Capital One confirmed that an “outside individual” stole names, social security numbers, and other data of over 100 mil...

Josh Hendrickson Jul 30th

How to Get the Old Twitter Website Back

Twitter.com was just updated with a new interface. Now a progressive web app, Twitter’s website is more similar to the mobile versions. But you don’t have to use the new one—you can get the classic Twitter w...

Chris Hoffman Jul 30th

How to Enable Adobe Flash in Google Chrome 76+

Adobe Flash is going away. Google drove another nail into its coffin with Chrome 76, which blocks all Flash content on websites by default. If you still use Flash, you can re-enable it for now—but Chrome makes it annoyi...

Windows 10 Leak Has “Cloud Download” For Reinstalling Windows

Reinstalling Windows 10 might soon get easier. The leaked version of Windows 10 featuring a new Start menu design has another surprising feature: A “Cloud Download” feature for reinstalling Windows....

Chris Hoffman Jul 29th