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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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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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8 of the Best Games to Play on Your Chromebook at School

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New Chromebooks Aren’t That “New”

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Chromebook Buying Guide 2024: What to Look for in Your Next Machine

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How to Fix Google Play Store Not Working on Chromebook

Get the Play Store running again on your Chromebook with these tips.

By Mehvish Mushtaq – May 27, 2022

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6 Ways to Stop Windows Updates

Get rid of the irritating Windows Update once and for all.

By Richard Kanyoro – May 27, 2022

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11 Essential Tips for macOS Users Coming to Windows

Learn what to expect when you make the jump from macOS to Windows.

By Sydney Butler – May 26, 2022

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7 Useful Cron Alternatives For Linux

You have more than one way to schedule tasks in Linux.

By Ramces Red – May 26, 2022

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How to Fix “Windows Modules Installer Worker” High CPU Usage

What do Windows updates have to do with high CPU usage?

By Ojash Yadav – May 24, 2022

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How to Manage Git in Emacs with Magit

Easily manage your Git repo with keyboard shortcuts!

By Ramces Red – May 23, 2022

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Settings App Not Working in Windows? Here Are the Fixes

There are plenty of reasons why the Settings app doesn’t work, but we have the fixes here.

By Robert Zak – May 22, 2022

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How to Check What Version of Windows You Are Running

Knowing which Windows version is running on your PC might come in handy one day.

By Richard Kanyoro – May 20, 2022

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How to Install macOS in VirtualBox

Enjoy Apple’s operating system on your Windows or Linux PC.

By Ojash Yadav – May 20, 2022

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How to Convert Legacy BIOS to UEFI in Windows

Is your Windows PC still using legacy BIOS?

By Sayak Boral – May 18, 2022

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How to Secure Your Chromebook

Are the contents of your Chromebook safe from prying eyes?

By Mehvish Mushtaq – May 18, 2022

Windows Defragmentation

How to Defrag Your Windows Hard Drive

Has your HDD-based PC slowed down quite a bit?

By Ojash Yadav – May 18, 2022

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How to Build and Install a Custom Kernel on Ubuntu

Customize your Linux to the max by compiling your own kernel

By Ramces Red – May 16, 2022

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The Best Windows 10 and 11 Easter Eggs to Seek Out

Fancy seeing a spinning cog in Windows?

By Crystal Crowder – May 15, 2022

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5 of the Best Sticky Note Apps for Mac

Improve your productivity with these handy sticky note apps for your Mac.

By Ratnesh Kumar – May 13, 2022

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The Beginner’s Guide to Git

Master Git and be more productive now!

By Ramces Red – May 12, 2022

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5 Tools to Easily Create a Custom Linux Distro

What flavor of Linux do you want?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 10, 2022

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4 Ways to Restore Deleted Files in Windows

Get back your precious lost files using one of these methods.

By Claire Moraa – May 6, 2022

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What Is the Matrix Protocol and How to Install It

Upgrade your chat client experience with Matrix.

By Ramces Red – May 4, 2022

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Why and How to Edit Your Sudoers File in Linux

There’s a “sudoers” file in your Linux system that permits and denies users from gaining super-user access. Learn how it works and how you can extend it.

By Ramces Red – May 3, 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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