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Did You Know? The first U.S. President to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Theodore Roosevelt–both for his work in legitimizing and supporting the international Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and by bringing Russia and Japan to the negotiation table to end the Russo-Japanese War. Geek Trivia The Primary Mineral Responsible For The Petrification Of Petrified Wood Is? Feldspar → Asbestos → Quartz → Granite → Advertisement Download The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (a $29.99 value) FREE for a limited time The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook guides you through the process of reverse engineering antivirus software. You explore how to detect and exploit vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to improve future software design, protect your network, and anticipate attacks that may sneak through your antivirus' line of defense. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Why It's Impossible to Know a Coastline's True Length Measuring around bodies of water is a mathematically impossible task. [Atlas Obscura] The Impossibly Complex Art Of Designing Eyes Today's video game characters look amazing, with one exception: the eyes. And perfection could still be decades away. [Fast Company] Lancet Global Burden of Disease Highlights Back Pain The biggest cause of disability around the world is surprisingly banal. [The Atlantic] iMessage is the glue that keeps me stuck to the iPhone The accidental social network [The Verge] What Are Layers and Masks in Photoshop? Photoshop can be confusing. It's a massive program with countless tools and techniques. However, it's not the advanced stuff that throws most people, but the very basics. As soon as you start using Photoshop, you'll probably need to use Layers and Layer Masks. If you don't wrap your head around them, you'll never be able to get much further. Read This Article → How to Access .onion Sites (Also Known as Tor Hidden Services) Website addresses that end in “.onion” aren’t like normal domain names, and you can’t access them with a normal web browser. Addresses that end with “.onion” point to Tor hidden services on the “deep web”. Read This Article → Everywhere You Can Watch (or Stream) the 2016 Presidential Debates Election season is upon us, and there’s no shortage of ways to watch the debates–traditional broadcast TV, online streaming options galore, and you can even see it in virtual reality. Read This Article → How to Change Your Browser’s User Agent Without Installing Any Extensions If you ever wanted to make your web traffic seem like it was coming from a different browser–say, to trick a site that claims it’s incompatible with yours–you can. All popular browsers offer built-in user agent switchers, so you can change your user agent without installing any extensions. Read This Article → How to Play Xbox 360 Games on Your Xbox One Microsoft’s Xbox One can now play a limited number of Xbox 360 games. But it’s not as simple as inserting any old disc and starting it up. Only some games will work, and the Xbox One runs them in an emulator. Read This Article → How to Encrypt Your Facebook Messages with “Secret Conversation” Mode Facebook has finally gotten with the times and rolled out device-to-device encrypted communication to all of the billion Facebook Messenger users. Here’s how to turn it on, which shortcomings to be aware of, and why you should start using it now. Read This Article → How to Make the $50 Amazon Fire Tablet More Like Stock Android (Without Rooting) Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet may be one of the best deals in tech–especially when it occasionally goes on sale for $35. It may feel limited, but with a few tweaks–no rooting necessary–you can turn it into an almost-stock Android tablet perfect for reading, watching, and even light gaming. Read This Article → How to Mute Your SkyBell HD Doorbell Sometimes you just don’t want to be bothered when you’re at home, so here’s how to temporarily mute your SkyBell HD, so it won’t chime if someone rings your doorbell. Read This Article → How to Re-Enable Flash in Safari 10 Are websites telling you to install Flash in Safari, even though you’ve already installed it? Here’s what’s going on, and how to get those sites working again. Read This Article → How to Customize Slack’s Appearance with Themes Many use Slack for day-to-day professional communication, as well as simply shootting the breeze. Looking at the same old interface every day can be a bit of a bore, though, so why not change things up with a new color theme? Read This Article → How to Reset Android’s Application Launcher to the Default Playing around with new application launchers on Android is pretty fun, but it isn’t exactly clear how to switch back to the default Google launcher. Read on as we show you. Read This Article → How to Define the Base Directory for the "cd" Command in Linux By default, the Terminal window in Linux opens to your home directory. To change to any directory that is not directly in the home directory, you must provide the full path or use the "cd" command multiple times. Read This Article → What Is 4G LTE? You’ve heard it in commercials, seen it plastered across billboards, and maybe even read about it in your cellphone plan. But what is 4G LTE, and how do its speeds and coverage compare to other 3G and 4G networks? Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (a $29.99 value) FREE for a limited time The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook guides you through the process of reverse engineering antivirus software. You explore how to detect and exploit vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to improve future software design, protect your network, and anticipate attacks that may sneak through your antivirus' line of defense. Click here to download