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Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

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

Close-up of glowing jellyfish swimming gracefully in deep green ocean waters.

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.

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A Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura, who lived to 116, was born in 1897 when Queen Victoria still ruled and died in 2013, meaning a single human life personally overlapped with the invention of the airplane, the atomic bomb, the internet, and Instagram

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The Hollywood sign originally read HOLLYWOODLAND when it was built in 1923 as a real estate advertisement for a housing development, and it was only meant to stand for 18 months, but nobody ever got around to taking it down and the city eventually adopted it as a landmark

Almost all of the world’s internet traffic does not travel by satellite but through fibre-optic cables lying on the ocean floor, a hidden web of wires crossing the deepest parts of the sea to connect the continents.

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I Just Replaced Adobe Illustrator With This Browser Based Alternative

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VideoProc Converter AI: Easy 1-Stop AI Video, Image, Audio Tool

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Discord Botched Age Verification – Here’s How They’re Fixing It

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How to Download Videos from X (Formerly Twitter)

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Snapchat Audio Driving You Crazy? Here’s the Rapid Fix

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How to Hide Telegram Chats Without Permanently Deleting Them

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In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Sony’s PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly imported over 4,000 of the gaming consoles — sparking an intense military investigation over fears that the systems would be chained together to build a crude, low-cost supercomputer capable of guiding long-range missiles

The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn’t actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes the game’s internal counter to glitch out at Level 256, violently corrupting the right half of the screen into a chaotic mess of random symbols and rendering the final stage completely unplayable.

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Apple has quietly become the largest watchmaker in the world by unit sales, shipping more than twice as many watches as the entire Swiss industry combined — but the Swiss industry, which dismissed the Apple Watch in 2015, has discovered something more interesting: they’ve held onto the high end, and Rolex alone is now closing in on Apple Watch by revenue

Why You Need A Travel Router For Public Wi Fi (and How To Set It Up)

Why a Travel Router is the Best Investment for Your Next Trip

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9 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Tablets and Put Them to Good Use

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11 Ways to Repurpose Old Phones

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I Finally Moved Away From My Synology NAS, and I Don’t Miss It

5 Essential Tips and Tricks for Google Docs You Need to Know About

There’s a good chance you are using Google Docs to for your word document. Here are 5 tips and tricks that will make your Google Docs better.

By Robert Zak – Nov 15, 2016

How to Set Up Free Email Subscription Service with TinyLetter

If you hate to spend extra time and effort to create and maintain an email list, one free email subscription service you can use is TinyLetter.

By Jeffry Thurana – Nov 15, 2016

Single Sign On (SSO) – What Is It and Should You Use It?

Single Sign On saves you the trouble of providing credentials to access sites. Here we will explain SSO in detail so you can decide if this is a good solution for you.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 12, 2016

5 of the Best Vine Alternatives to Share Your Videos

Twitter announced that they would be discontinuing Vine “in the coming months.” Vine users can check out these Vine alternatives and start switching now.

By Ryan Lynch – Nov 11, 2016

A New Approach to Ad Blocking: Charitable Adblockers and More

Is there a way to insure a minimally-intrusive browsing experience without hurting creators? In this article we tackle charitable adblockers to find out.

By Christopher Harper – Nov 10, 2016

How to Use External Images as Featured Images in WordPress

Adding a Featured Image to a WordPress post requires you to physically upload the image. What if you want to use an external image as the featured image? Here’s how.

By Jeffry Thurana – Nov 8, 2016

Find Out How Websites Are Tracking You and How You Can Hide Your Info

Websites tracking you and targeted advertising may seem like an unavoidable part of modern life, but you can protect your privacy with these strategies.

By John Parsons – Nov 7, 2016

6 Great Projects to Use Your Computer to Advance Scientific Ventures

Have you ever wanted to help out in a field of scientific interest? Here are 6 projects where you can donate your PC processing power to advance scientific research.

By Simon Batt – Nov 4, 2016

How to Add Cool CSS3 Animation to Your WordPress Content

Looking to spice up the plain old text in your WordPress site? This WordPress plugin allows you to easily add cool CSS3 animations to your content.

By Jeffry Thurana – Nov 3, 2016

5 of the Best Google Earth Mods and Hacks

Google Earth is free and extensible. You can apply mods to make Google Earth more entertaining. Here are some of the best Google Earth mods you should try.

By Ryan Lynch – Nov 2, 2016

How to Easily Share and Embed Large Image Albums with Imgur

If you have many photos, it can be difficult to share them all to your social networks. Imgur provides a way for you to share and embed large image albums. Let’s check it out.

By Simon Batt – Nov 2, 2016

5 of the Best Freshbooks Alternatives for Small Businesses

FreshBooks is the go-to software for tracking expenses and invoices, but it is quite expensive. Here are 5 of the best Freshbooks alternatives that you should try to save on cost.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 1, 2016

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How to Create Custom WordPress User Roles

While WordPress comes with a default set of user roles, it may not be sufficient for most of you. Here’s how you can create custom WordPress user roles.

By Ayo Isaiah – Oct 29, 2016

7 of the Best WordPress Video Plugins You Can Use to Embed Videos

If your WordPress site has a lot of videos, here are seven great WordPress video plugins to try.

By Ada Ivanova – Oct 27, 2016

How to Back Up Photos While Traveling without a Computer

Nothing makes you break out in a cold sweat faster than the prospect of losing images while you are traveling. Here’s how you can back up your photos while traveling without having to lug a heavy computer around.

By Ryan Lynch – Oct 25, 2016

6 of the Best WordPress Translation Plugins to Translate Your Site to Another Language

A multilingual site can drives more traffic, but manually translating your content into multiple languages is overkill. Fortunately, there are WordPress translation plugins you can use to translate your content and/or manage the translations.

By Ada Ivanova – Oct 25, 2016

The Best Way to Manage Automatic WordPress Updates

A WordPress auto update can be useful, but it can also break things if you are not careful. Learn the best ways to manage automatic WordPress updates without breaking your site.

By Jeffry Thurana – Oct 25, 2016

How To Control What Appears on Your Facebook Timeline

If you have many friends tagging you in Facebook, here’s how you can clean up your Facebook timeline by reviewing what you are tagged in before it appears on your Timeline.

By Karrar Haider – Oct 23, 2016

Simple Tips You Can Use to Better Organize Files in Dropbox

Dropbox is a fantastic cloud storage tool, but it can get very disorganized if you are not very careful. Here we provide some tips to better organize files and folders in Dropbox and turn it into an organized resource.

By Phil South – Oct 21, 2016

How to Fix DNS Errors and Regain Access to the Internet

Have you encountered a DNS error in your browser and can’t visit any website at all? Find out how you can fix DNS errors and regain access to the Internet.

By Simon Batt – Oct 20, 2016

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