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4/8/2023
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Your Weather App Is Spying on You, Here's What to Do
Did You Know?: The “Wilhelm Scream” is a stock sound effect of a man's scream which has been used in hundreds of movies, television shows, cartoons, and video games. It was originally recorded in
4/7/2023
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10 iPhone Photos App Features You Should Be Using
Did You Know?: Today, we pronounce Dr. Seuss like his surname rhymes with “goose”, but he pronounced it like it rhymed with “voice”. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek April 7, 2023 Did You Know?
4/6/2023
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6 Things to Use an Uninterruptible Power Supply for Besides Your PC
Did You Know?: 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
4/5/2023
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HTG Deals: Enjoy Huge Sales on Apple Watch, Samsung Storage, and More
Logo for How-To Geek Deals April 5, 2023 Enjoy Huge Sales on Apple Watch, Samsung Storage, and More Early spring sales are cropping up all over the place, and we've got the details on what you need
4/5/2023
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Best Weather Apps for iPhone, Mesh Router Tips, & Ubuntu 23.04
Did You Know?: The deepest point in all of the Earth's oceans is the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The deepest area within the trench, appropriately named the Challenger Deep,
4/4/2023
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ChatGPT vs. Bing Chat AI: Which Is Better?
Did You Know?: Television laugh tracks, or pre-recorded laughter designed to give the illusion of a laughing studio audience, debuted in 1950 on the Hank McCune Show. Read in Browser Logo for How-To
4/3/2023
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How to Add More USB Ports to a PC (Plus: Bing's AI Chatbot)
Did You Know?: “Quicksilver”, referring to mercury or the mercury/tin blend which was used, historically, to make mirrors, derives its name from the Old English “cwicseolfor”—literally “living silver”—
4/2/2023
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How to Keep Your TV Going During a Power Outage
Did You Know?: The iconic 1950s era claymation character Gumby was the inspired result of a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia created by Art Clokey while he attended the University of
4/1/2023
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How to Enable Dark Mode in Real Life
Did You Know?: Graphene was first observed, via electron microscope, in 1962 and studied only while supported on metal surfaces. The material was later rediscovered, isolated, and characterized in 2004
3/31/2023
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Why You Can't Hear Dialogue on Your TV (and 7 Ways to Fix It)
Did You Know?: Wiki was added to the online Oxford English Dictionary in 2007—13 years after the first wiki was unveiled. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek March 31, 2023 Did You Know? Wiki was
3/30/2023
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5 Reasons You Should Buy a Mini PC (and 3 Reasons Not To)
Did You Know?: Heinrich Hertz's research proved the existence of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, but he believed that his harnessing of “wireless waves” had no practical application
3/29/2023
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Save Big on Online Privacy Protection, Samsung Tablets, & More
Logo for How-To Geek Deals March 29, 2023 Save Big on Online Privacy Protection, Samsung Tablets, & More When you think about tech deals, specific products probably come to mind, like all-time-low
3/29/2023
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6 Tricks That Won't Secure Your Wi-Fi (And 6 That Will)
Did You Know?: In 2000, Neil deGrasse Tyson was voted “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive” by People Magazine. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek March 29, 2023 Did You Know? In 2000, Neil deGrasse Tyson
3/28/2023
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How to Run a ChatGPT-like AI on Your Own PC
Did You Know?: The only character to appear in all seven books of CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series is the lion Aslan. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek March 28, 2023 Did You Know? The
3/27/2023
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How to Kick People Off Your Wi-Fi Network
Did You Know?: There are several long 10 letter words that you can spell using only the top row of a QWERTY format keyboard such as proprietor, repertoire, and—fittingly enough—typewriter. Read in
3/26/2023
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Before DVDs, There Were VCDs: The Video Disc Everyone Forgot
Did You Know?: Ironically, despite how famous the James Bond franchise made the numbers “007”, there was no Bond movie released in 2007. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek March 26, 2023 Did You Know
3/25/2023
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Where Do Weather Apps Get Their Info From?
Did You Know?: Using tin cans as a method of food preservation started as early as the 1770s and a patent was issued for tin food cans in 1810, but the first dedicated can openers weren't invented
3/24/2023
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Why Internet Speed Tests Don't Really Matter (and What Does)
Did You Know?: The surname of iconic Nintendo character Mario is also Mario, making his full name Mario Mario. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek March 24, 2023 Did You Know? The surname of iconic
3/23/2023
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Why Shows Are Too Dark on Your TV (and 9 Ways to Fix It)
Did You Know?: The chocolate between the wafers of a Kit-Kat bar isn't the same chocolate used on the exterior of the bars—it's made from mashed up Kit-Kat bars that failed their quality checks
3/22/2023
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Special UPDF Offer, Plus Deals on Pixel Watch, PC Monitors, and More
Logo for How-To Geek Deals March 22, 2023 Special UPDF Offer, Plus Deals on Pixel Watch, PC Monitors, and More Happy first week of spring! With warmer temperatures come even hotter deals, and this time