How to Opt Out of Personalized Ads from Google

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Amazon's demented plans for its warehouse blimp with drone fleet Giant airship will hover over your city, deploying drones for advertising and delivery. [ArsTechnica] Boston's first self-driving car tests will start next week But don't expect any taxi rides yet [The Verge] Why Google co-founder Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars "There's a couple of technologies that are maturing and converging" to make small, affordable airplanes feasible, says Brian German, an aerospace researcher at Georgia Tech. [Vox] One of World's Most Dangerous Supervolcanoes Is Rumbling Italy's Campi Flegrei may be awakening from a long slumber, scientists warn. [National Geographic ] How to Opt Out of Personalized Ads from Google Ads are an unfortunate necessity on the internet—they’re how sites like this one are able to operate. But if you find personalized ads a little too creepy, you can tell Google (one of the internet’s biggest ad networks) to stop showing you personalized ads. Read This Article → Four Ways Point-and-Shoot Cameras Still Beat Smartphones Smartphone cameras are getting better and better every year, and while no one would argue DSLRs are the best choice for serious photography, smartphones have made middle-of-the-road point-and-shoots all the more rare in people’s arsenals. But there are still a few areas in which point-and-shoot cameras are superior to the phone in your pocket. Read This Article → 11 Things You Can Do with the MacBook's Force Touch Trackpad The new Force Touch trackpad on Apple’s MacBooks is similar to the 3D Touch display on the iPhone 6s and 7, allowing you to press down harder to perform a different task or bring up secondary options. Here are some cool things you can do with the MacBook’s Force Touch trackpad. Read This Article → How to Use a VPN with Your Amazon Fire Tablet Whether you need to access your company intranet from afar or you want to watch Netflix while on vacation in a foreign country, setting up a VPN on your Amazon Fire tablet makes accessing remote networks a snap. Read This Article → How to Bypass Amazon's $25 Add-On Item Minimum Using Alexa Many cheaper items on Amazon are a “Add-on Items”, which you can only buy if your total order is $25 or more. However, here’s how to get around that using an Amazon Echo or other Alexa-enabled device. Read This Article → How to Automatically Pause Running Workouts on the Apple Watch If you use Apple Watch for your runs, then you know it’s a nice way to keep track of your distance, time, pace, and heart rate. Sometimes however, you might have to stop briefly, forgetting to pause your Watch, giving you inaccurate results. Read This Article → How to Share YouTube Videos Starting at a Certain Point Tech tutorials that start with 3 minutes of “hey guys what’s up” are the worst. Get to the point! Here’s how you can bypass that nonsense when sharing a video with your friends. Read This Article → How to Fix “Enhance Pointer Precision” Automatically Enabling or Disabling Itself in Windows Windows’ “Enhance Pointer Precision” setting helps with some mice, but hurts with others. If you find that it keeps enabling or disabling itself automatically, here are some potential fixes. Read This Article → How to Replace Windows Essentials 2012 After Support Ends in January Microsoft will end support for the Windows Essentials 2012 suite on January 10, 2017. If you use any of the suite’s component apps—Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, OneDrive, Family Safety, Mail, or Live Writer—here’s what you need to know. 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