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6/20/2023
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Is It Bad to Leave Your Phone in the Sun?
Did You Know?: PAM cooking spray, introduced in 1959, wasn't named after a woman named Pam. It was an acronym for the inventor: Product of Arthur Meyerhoff. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek
6/20/2023
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5 Reasons Using Your Controller Wired is Better
Did You Know?: Potato chip bags are filled with nitrogen gas to prevent spoilage and soggy chips. The extra “air” also helps protect the chips from being damaged by rough handling during the shipping
6/20/2023
5 : 25
Your Gaming Monitor Might Be Too Big
Did You Know?: The kind of amnesia portrayed in films like 50 First Dates is called anterograde amnesia, where the patient is unable to form new memories after the date of the event that caused the
6/20/2023
5 : 15
How to Make Awesome Wallpapers for Any Device With MidJourney
Did You Know?: Rebracketing is the historical linguistic process by which words (and typically their articles) are broken apart and recombined while still retaining their meaning; it is by this
6/13/2023
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7 Android 14 Features I'm Excited About
Did You Know?: In the mid-1980s, there was a superhero with no superpowers; Normalman, a parody character created by artist Jim Valentino—Normalman was, as his name implies, the only person on his
6/12/2023
16 : 24
RSS Readers Are Better Than Ever, Thanks to Twitter & Reddit
Did You Know?: The 1937 supernatural comedy Topper was the first black-and-white full-length feature film converted to color via digital colorization—the color version was released in 1985. Read in
6/12/2023
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Here's What's New in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS 14 Sonoma
Did You Know?: The Hope Diamond glows blood red when exposed to ultraviolet light (typically, blue diamonds glow white when bathed in ultraviolet light); this is one of the many factors that have
6/12/2023
2 : 56
Who Is the Apple Vision Pro Augmented Reality Headset For?
Did You Know?: “Whelm” is a verb that means to bury, cover, engulf, or submerge, but it is rarely used outside of its derivatives, overwhelm and underwhelm. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek June 7,
6/12/2023
2 : 55
Save Big on Our Favorite Wireless Mice, Laptop Cooling Pads, and More
Logo for How-To Geek Deals June 7, 2023 Save Big on Our Favorite Wireless Mice, Laptop Cooling Pads, and More Summer is just around the corner, and it's brought some deals along with it. This week,
6/12/2023
2 : 35
4 Wildly Popular Apple Products That Were Criticized at Launch
Did You Know?: Ultracrepidarianism is the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters which one knows nothing about; the word first appeared as an insult in an 1819 letter by essayist William
6/12/2023
2 : 17
10 Plex Features You Should be Using
Did You Know?: Licorice is delicious in small doses, but heavy consumption of products with natural licorice flavoring like candies and teas can cause unexpected health problems. Glycyrrhizin and
6/12/2023
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Vision Pro Fails to Fit Into Apple's Digital Wellbeing Mission
Did You Know?: Honey bees can be trained to detect drugs and explosives just like detection dogs. Deployment, as you would imagine, is significantly less convenient. Read in Browser Logo for How-To
6/12/2023
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Mac Gaming Is About To Get Much Better. Here's Why
Did You Know?: Moths use the light of the Moon and stars for navigation. The moths that gather around your porch light are confused by it and keep changing their flight angle in an attempt to maintain
6/5/2023
16 : 24
Physical vs. Digital Games: Should You Buy Physical Games?
Did You Know?: The enormous geodesic polyhedron, Spaceship Earth, at the center of Walt Disney World's Epcot park, is clad in 11324 silvered isosceles triangles. If a perfect polyhedron, it would
6/4/2023
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What You Should (and Shouldn't) Unplug or Turn Off When You Go On Vacation
Did You Know?: Just as we orbit around the Sun, the Sun orbits around the core of the Milky Way. Relative to the center of the galaxy, we're moving at an average speed of 143 miles per second (230
6/3/2023
16 : 24
6 Ways Our Tech Is Better Than Star Trek's
Did You Know?: Momofuku Ando, the Japanese inventor of instant noodles, was inspired to create cup noodles (instant noodles packaged in a ready-to-use styrofoam cup) after watching Americans break
6/2/2023
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10 Common VPN Mistakes People Make
Did You Know?: Flibbertigibbet is a Middle English word that originally referred to a flighty or whimsical person, but from the 19th century onwards, has been used as slang for a gossipy or overly
6/1/2023
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10 Mistakes New Android Users Make
Did You Know?: An approximately 14200 year old grave site uncovered in Germany in 1914 is the earliest evidence we have of the domestication of dogs. The site had two humans along with the body of a
5/31/2023
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Buy a Waterproof Speaker for the Pool, & Grab More Early Summer Sales
Logo for How-To Geek Deals May 31, 2023 Buy a Waterproof Speaker for the Pool, & Grab More Early Summer Sales Memorial Day might have come a close far too soon, as long weekends always do, but that
5/31/2023
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10 Windows Text-Entry Tricks You Should Be Using
Did You Know?: Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender, inventor of iconic guitars like the Fender Stratocaster, didn't actually know how to play the guitar. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek May 31,