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Geek Trivia: Blood Drives Tied To Which Of These Movie Franchises Have Collected Over 120,000 Pints Of Blood?
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Geek Trivia: Tim Burton Was Fired From Disney Over Which Of These Animated Shorts?
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Geek Trivia: Which Planet Did Carl Sagan Want To Terraform First?
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These U.S. States Is Known For An Architectural Detail Called A “Witch Window”?
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Geek Trivia: The Coin Widely Believed To Have Popularized The Idea Of “Heads Or Tails” Was The?
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Geek Trivia: The Term “Personal Space” Was Injected Into The English Language By?
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Amazon’s New Cloud Cam Is Like the Nest Cam, But a Whole Lot Cheaper
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Geek Trivia: Pneumoencephalography Is A Medical Procedure Where Your Spinal Fluid Is Replaced With?
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What Are Electron Apps, and Why Have They Become So Common?
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The Nintendo Switch Appears to Now Support GameCube Controllers
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The Xbox One Gets Backwards Compatibility With Thirteen Original Xbox Games Starting Today
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The Kindle Is Ten Years Old, and Amazon’s Celebrating With $30 Off a Few Models
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How to Scan QR Codes with the iPhone’s Camera App
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Geek Trivia: Which Of Superman’s Powers Was Created At The Behest Of Animators?
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Is Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program Cheaper than Buying Outright?
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The Best Chromebooks You Can Buy, 2017 Edition
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Countries Has A Traditional Calendar With Dozens Of Microseasons?
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How to Free Up Space on an iPhone or iPad
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Geek Trivia: The Most Popular Laserdisc-Based Video Game Was?
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How to Make Your Samsung Galaxy Phone Feel More Like Stock Android
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Geek Trivia: Lakes Formed By Meteor Impacts Are Called?
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Smart Watches for Children Are Dangerous Garbage
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Geek Trivia: During World War II, Which Of The Following Items Was Heavily Censored?
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Geek Trivia: The Term “Gerrymandering” Originated In Which U.S. State?
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Geek Trivia: The Largest City Located Within The Arctic Circle Is?
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Geek Trivia: James Bond, The Iconic And Fictional British Spy, Was Named After A Real?
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Hey iPhone Users, Apple Maps Is Good Now
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How to Block Spammy Text Messages on an iPhone
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Geek Trivia: The Modern Day Country With The Most Pyramids Is?
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Why Snow, Rain, and Confetti Destroy Streaming Video Quality
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Geek Trivia: The Largest Terrestrial Biome On Earth Is The?
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Geek Trivia: The Motherboards Inside Xbox One X Units Have A Hidden Mark Depicting?
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How to Show Empty, Unformatted Drives in Disk Utility on macOS
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What Is “COM Surrogate” (dllhost.exe) and Why Is It Running on My PC?
If you poke around in your Task Manager, there’s a good chance you’ll see one or more “COM Surrogate” processes running on a Windows PC. The...Read More
How to Easily Share Your Wi-Fi Password Using Your iPhone and iOS 11
If a friend or family member comes over to your house and wants to hop on your Wi-Fi network, iOS 11 has made it way easier to share your Wi...Read More
How to Hide the Red Notification Badges for Apps on Your iPhone
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How to Enable Emergency SOS Services on Your iPhone
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Chrome Is Your OS Now, Even If You Use Windows
Yesterday, Microsoft announced they are bringing Edge to iOS and Android devices, in order to create a more seamless experience between your...Read More
How to Hide Recent Apps from the iPad Dock
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Geek Trivia: In Addition To Corn And Rice, The Most Important Carbohydrate Source For Tropical Nations Is?
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The Pixel 2 Isn’t Really Exclusive to Verizon: You Can Use It on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint
Another year, another Pixel event…and another round of confusing “Only on Verizon” ad campaigns. But here’s the thing: the Pixel 2 can be us...Read More
How to Set Up BitLocker Encryption on Windows
BitLocker is a tool built into Windows that lets you encrypt an entire hard drive for enhanced security. Here’s how to set it up. via: how...Read More
How to Use the One-Handed Keyboard on Your iPhone
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Facebook Messenger Lite Is a Great Alternative to Facebook Messenger
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Is It Worth Upgrading to the Pixel 2?
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Geek Trivia: When Faced With A Choice Where The Only Options Are The First Choice Or Nothing, It’s Called A?
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What’s the Difference Between the Google Home, Mini, and Max?
In an effort to more closely compete with Amazon’s latest additions to its Echo lineup, Google unveiled the Google Home Mini and the Google ...Read More
How to Leave the macOS Public Beta Now That High Sierra Is Out
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How to Join Netflix’s Test Program and Try Out New Features Early
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The Cheapest Ways to Stream NHL Hockey (Without Cable)
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How to Regain Control of a Hijacked Twitter Account
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What Are NVIDIA MAX-Q Laptops?
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How to Enable or Disable the Spell Checker on Android
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How to Change Your Country on Amazon So You Can Buy Different Kindle Books
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Geek Trivia: Many Xbox 360 Owners, Desperate To Fix The “Red Ring Of Death” Failure, Resorted To Wrapping Them In?
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How Safari’s New Intelligent Tracking Prevention Works
It’s one of the most discussed new features in High Sierra: Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention. Advertisers are upset about it, cl...Read More
How to Upgrade Your Smarthome Connections in Google Home
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Not All Ethernet Cables Are Equal: You Can Get Faster LAN Speeds By Upgrading
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How to Disable GeForce Experience’s Reward Advertisements
NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software now displays notification advertisements for free-to-play games. If you don’t want notification popups ...Read More
How to Automatically Enable Wi-Fi When You’re Near a Trusted Network in Android Oreo
You disable Wi-Fi on your Android phone to improve battery life, which is great! But how many times have you forgotten to enable it again, u...Read More
How to Stop Your iPhone Dinging Twice When You Get Text Messages
By default, when you get an SMS or iMessage, your iPhone will make a sound once when you receive it, and then again two minutes later in cas...Read More
How to Run Android on Windows With AMIDuOS
There are an increasing number of ways to try out Android applications on your Windows desktop or laptop. But of the various methods I’ve sa...Read More
How to Re-Caulk Areas in Your Bathroom or Kitchen
Caulk is vital in areas like the bathroom and kitchen where water has the opportunity to creep into all sorts of crevices and cause problems...Read More
Geek Trivia: After Community Uproar, Mojang Changed The Food You Feed Minecraft Parrots From?
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What Is the powerd Process, and Why Is It Running on My Mac?
You’re browsing Activity Monitor on your Mac when something catches your eye: powerd. What is that, and should you be worried? via: howtog...Read More
How Neutral Density Filters Work and How to Use Them For Better Photography
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The Only Safe Way to Update Your Hardware Drivers on Windows
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How to Log In to a Windows Desktop Without a Keyboard
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The Cheapest Ways to Stream NBA Basketball (Without Cable)
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Why Can’t I Listen to Radio If My Phone Has an FM Receiver In It?
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai just publicly called on Apple to activate the FM receiver chips found in iPhones for public safety reasons. Many A...Read More
Geek Trivia: The Precursor To The Bright Yellow On-Screen “First Down” Line In Football Was A Tracker Used In?
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The Best File Extraction and Compression Tool for Windows
If you’re a Windows user, you probably need to install a tool for creating and extracting archive files. Windows only features built in supp...Read More
Geek Trivia: Canada And Which Of These U.S. States Have Very Similar Population Sizes?
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