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When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug that caused it to crash on the new operating system—but instead of forcing the game studio to fix it, Microsoft engineers actually rewrote the core Windows 95 source code to detect if SimCity was running and safely allocate memory for it.

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How to Add Users to a Group in Linux

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Try these solutions if your PC won’t stay asleep for long.

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How to Install CMake in Linux

Use CMake to build, test, and package software written in C and C++.

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Movavi Video Editor 23 for Mac Review

Robust video editing tools in an easy-to-use format.

By Brahm Shank – Oct 20, 2022

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How to Resample Hi-Res FLAC in Linux

Play your FLAC music on your music player.

By Ramces Red – Oct 20, 2022

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How to Fix an MTD Device Error in Linux

Get your Ubuntu computer up and running again!

By Nathan Meyer – Oct 19, 2022

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Be like the spy in the movie!

By Brandon Li – Oct 18, 2022

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Get back online as soon as possible!

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How to Check and Control Your CPU Frequency in Ubuntu

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3 Quick and Easy Ways to Open Any File as Root in Ubuntu

Easily edit files with root access.

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By Sandeep Babu – Oct 13, 2022

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Migrate from CentOS to AlmaLinux in just a few minutes.

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How to Install and Use Snapcraft on Linux

Easily install software with a Snap

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View large files effortlessly!

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How to Create a Bitcoin Lightning Node in Linux

Speed up the Bitcoin process.

By Ramces Red – Oct 11, 2022

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How to Create Symbolic Links (Symlink) in Windows

Better than shortcuts!

By Sydney Butler – Oct 10, 2022

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Ubuntu Software Center Not Working? Here Are the Fixes

Quickly fix Ubuntu Software Center to install the apps you want.

By Crystal Crowder – Oct 9, 2022

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How to Enable Audio Casting in Linux

Easily share your audio with another device.

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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

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Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

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The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

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Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

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