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Did You Know? When glass cracks it seems almost instantaneous thanks to the speed at which glass shatters–cracks form in glass at a staggering 3200 meters per second. Geek Trivia Which Country Has The Most Authors Per Capita? Iceland → The United States → Britain → Japan → Advertisement Download 2016 IT Management Kit (a $17.99 value) FREE for a limited time! Kit includes "Windows 10 at Work for Dummies" plus 3 other resources to help you with IT management. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Add Your Gmail, Contacts, and Google Calendar to Your iPhone or iPad How to Fix a Stuck Download in the Windows Store Create More Useful Shortcuts on Android’s Home Screen with Nova Launcher Gestures What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux How to Enable Parental Controls on Your PlayStation 4 How to Change the Amazon Echo’s “Wake Word” How to Set Air Filter Reminders with Your Nest Thermostat How to Give Your iPhone Contacts Special Ringtones and Vibration Alerts How to Rename a Bookmark in Microsoft Word Using a Free Add-in Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Reverse Mentoring Reverse Mentoring refers to the practice where older executives are paired with, and mentored by younger employees regarding topics such as emerging technologies, current trends, social media, and/or perspective (insights and information) specific to the younger age bracket. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The harsh truth about speed-reading One investigator remarked that the only achievement demonstrated was "a remarkable dexterity in page-turning." [Daily Dot] Without NASA there would be no SpaceX and its brilliant boat landing Just before Christmas, in 2008, the space agency saved Musk's company. [ArsTechnica] Research backs up the instinct that walking improves creativity. If you're looking for a good excuse to get away from your desk, this will do. [Quartz] 'Hyper Light Drifter' Is the Best 'Zelda' I Played in Years Hyper Light Drifter captures the wonder of exploring and deciphering a new world for the first time. [Motherboard] Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell Thanks to a ridiculous and lazy decision by an internet security company, millions of IP address lookups by law enforcement agencies all point to a rural farm in Kansas. [Fusion] How to Add Your Gmail, Contacts, and Google Calendar to Your iPhone or iPad Gmail is one of the most popular email services on Earth, and the iPhone is the most popular phone. If you have all your email, contacts, and calendars stored in your Gmail account, you can easily add it to iOS and get the best of both worlds. Read This Article → How to Fix a Stuck Download in the Windows Store Though it’s had its share of flaky behavior since being introduced in Windows 8, the Windows Store has gotten more reliable over time. It still has the occasional problems, though. One of the more irritating issues is when an app update (or install) gets stuck. Here’s how to fix that. Read This Article → Create More Useful Shortcuts on Android’s Home Screen with Nova Launcher Gestures If you’re anything like me, you do a lot of stuff with your Android phone. That usually means clutter on the home screens for most users—but it doesn’t have to be that way. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer Windows 10's next big update, dubbed the "Anniversary Update", comes out this summer, and we’re starting to see some features in the Insider Preview builds today. Here’s what’s been announced so far, along with a few goodies we’ve discovered in the first preview. Read This Article → How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux The tar command on Linux is often used to create .tar.gz or .tgz archive files, also called “tarballs.” This command has a large number of options, but you just need to remember a few letters to quickly create archives with tar. The tar command can extract the resulting archives, too. Read This Article → How to Enable Parental Controls on Your PlayStation 4 Your PlayStation 4 offers parental controls that can limit access to games, Blu-ray movies, DVDs, and web browsing. Your restrictions are protected with a four-digit numerical PIN so they can’t be easily bypassed. Read This Article → How to Change the Amazon Echo’s “Wake Word” By default, “Alexa” is the wake word that triggers the Amazon Echo to listen to your commands. You’re not stuck with that trigger, however, and can change it to suit your preference–or to cut to down on cross-Echo confusion. Read This Article → How to Set Air Filter Reminders with Your Nest Thermostat The Nest Learning Thermostat can save you money on your heating and air conditioning bills, but if you aren’t keeping up with maintaining your heating and cooling system, you’re probably not saving as much money as you could be. Luckily, your Nest Thermostat can help remind you to perform regular maintenance. Read This Article → How to Give Your iPhone Contacts Special Ringtones and Vibration Alerts If you want to know who’s calling without looking at your phone, you can customize your contacts with special ringtones and vibration alerts. Then it doesn’t matter if it is across the room or in your pocket, you’ll know who is phoning you. Read This Article → How to Rename a Bookmark in Microsoft Word Using a Free Add-in Bookmarks in Word are useful for navigating through your document, allowing you to quickly jump to specific parts of it. You can add and remove bookmarks, but Word does not let you rename them. However, we'll show you a way around that limitation. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 IT Management Kit (a $17.99 value) FREE for a limited time! Kit includes "Windows 10 at Work for Dummies" plus 3 other resources to help you with IT management. Click here to download