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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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Linux

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ShellGPT: Turn Your Words into Terminal Commands

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This AI Assistant Makes the Linux Desktop Much Smarter

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The Myth of Linux Optimization Tools, and Why You Really Don’t Need Them At All

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Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs wanted users to reach for the mouse first. Then Apple quietly sold the missing keys as an accessory.

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You Can Now Share Your Chromebook Screen With Others

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New Chromebooks Aren’t That “New”

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How to View WebP Images on Linux

There are many ways to view WebP images in Linux

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Aug 27, 2022

Firmware

How to Update Firmware in Your Linux Machine

Firmware is not the same as kernel

By Hrishikesh Pathak – Aug 26, 2022

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How to Add Portable Apps to Windows Startup

Start your favorite portable apps when Windows does.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 25, 2022

How To Set Up Reminders On Windows

How to Set Up Reminders in Windows

Are you having trouble remembering your tasks? There’s help out there!

By Dharini Udani – Aug 25, 2022

Weather

How to Display the Weather Forecast on Linux

Start getting that important weather information on your Linux PC.

By Hrishikesh Pathak – Aug 25, 2022

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How to Use Your Smartphone as a Second Monitor for Your Linux Desktop

Make your smartphone useful again.

By Muhammad Munna – Aug 24, 2022

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SELinux vs AppArmor: What Are the Differences and Which One Should You Use?

Learn how SELinux and AppArmor work.

By Zeeman Memon – Aug 23, 2022

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How to Enable and Use the Windows 11 Touch Keyboard

A deep dive on Windows 11’s most versatile text input option.

By John Ruiz – Aug 22, 2022

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How to Check Whether an App Has Been Optimized for Apple Silicon in macOS

If you recently switched to an Apple Silicon Mac, you may want to know which apps have been optimized for Apple’s custom processor.

By Brahm Shank – Aug 22, 2022

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8 Ways to Fix Unresponsive Apps and System Freezes on Mac

Apps crashing or system freezing on your Mac? While it’s a rare, if it happens to you, follow these methods to fix the freezes on your Mac.

By Brahm Shank – Aug 19, 2022

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Basic Bash Commands for Linux Newbies

Start your bash journey right now.

By Hrishikesh Pathak – Aug 19, 2022

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How to Set Up a Bitcoin Full Node With Dojo in Linux

Get a Bitcoin full node running on your PC.

By Ramces Red – Aug 18, 2022

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How to Turn Websites into Desktop Apps in Windows

Transforming your favorite websites into desktop apps comes with real benefits.

By John Ruiz – Aug 17, 2022

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How to Install Asahi Linux on Your M1 Mac

Asahi Linux is the first Linux distro to run natively on M1 Macs. It lets you dual boot macOS and Linux on your Mac with an M1 series chip.

By Muhammad Munna – Aug 16, 2022

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How to Monitor Battery Health on Mac Laptops

Is your Mac’s battery healthy?

By Brahm Shank – Aug 15, 2022

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How to Set Up Bluetooth in Linux

Not all LInux distros come with Bluetooth set up from the start.

By Ramces Red – Aug 15, 2022

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How to Check Whether a USB Drive Is Bootable in Windows

Make sure your USB drive is really bootable in Windows.

By Sayak Boral – Aug 14, 2022

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How to Blur Images on a Mac

Easily hide private info in your photos on your Mac.

By Ojash Yadav – Aug 13, 2022

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How to Find Large Files in Linux

Learn how to easily mantain and manage your filesystems.

By Hrishikesh Pathak – Aug 11, 2022

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How to Enable Live Captions in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura

No more straining your ears trying to understand what is said on screen.

By Brahm Shank – Aug 9, 2022

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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

Jun 15, 2026

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

Jun 11, 2026

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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

Jun 10, 2026

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

Jun 10, 2026

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