What Is "Systemless Root" on Android, and Why Is It Better?

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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 Get Deal Alerts for Just About Any Product with Slickdeals How to Disable the Command Prompt and “Run” Program in Windows How to Add a Work or School Account to Windows with Work Access What Is “Systemless Root” on Android, and Why Is It Better? Why Are Smaller SSDs Slower? How to Print to a Google Cloud Printer from iOS How to Combine Images into One PDF File on a Mac How to Fix the Android Play Store When It Constantly Force Closes How to Replace 7-Zip’s Ugly Icons with Better-Looking Ones The Difference Between All of Philips’ Hue Light Bulbs Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Referrer A Referrer (a.k.a. HTTP Referrer) is URL data from an HTTP header field used in web analytics to identify where a visitor to the current page or website originated from (i.e. previous web page, link from another website, a search engine, etc.). 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. A crisp intro to CRISPR, the gene-editing tool shaking up science CRISPR may be that rarest thing in science: a genuine breakthrough. [The Verge] A "new" work by Rembrandt has been created by algorithms and 3D-printed A team of data analysts, developers, and art historians have worked together for eighteen months to answer a provocative question: can a great master be brought back to create one more painting? [Quartz] Sorry, Everyone: The iPhone SE is an apology to big-phone haters everywhere Review: There's not much that's "new," but that's not what this phone is about. [ArsTechnica] Internet Service Should Cost Exactly as Much as It's Advertised to Cost Monday, the Federal Communications Commission announced "Broadband Facts," an information label that internet service providers are supposed to use to let customers know how much money they're going to spend on their connections. [Motherboard] How to Get Deal Alerts for Just About Any Product with Slickdeals There are so many deals that pop up every single day that it can be really difficult keep up with all of them. But there’s an easy way to track only the products you’re interested in, and receive alerts in your email when a certain deal goes live. Read This Article → How to Disable the Command Prompt and “Run” Program in Windows The Command Prompt and the Run program are pretty powerful tools in the Windows world. If you’d rather specific users on a computer not have access to them, it’s not too hard to do. Read This Article → How to Add a Work or School Account to Windows with Work Access Windows 10 includes “Work Access” options, which you’ll find under Accounts in the Settings app. These are intended for people who need to connect to an employer or school’s infrastructure with their own devices. Work Access provides you access to the organization’s resources and gives the organization some control over your device. Read This Article → What Is “Systemless Root” on Android, and Why Is It Better? Gaining root access on Android devices isn’t a new concept, but the way it is done has changed with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The new “systemless” root method can be a bit confusing at first, so we’re here to help make sense of it all, why you’d want it, and why this method is the best way to root an Android phone moving forward. Read This Article → Why Are Smaller SSDs Slower? If you happen to be researching specific computer hardware like SSDs, for instance, you might expect the smaller ones to be faster than the larger ones. But is that actually the case or is the opposite true? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Print to a Google Cloud Printer from iOS Apple’s own AirPrint printing is deeply integrated into iPhones and iPads. The “Print” options you see throughout the operating system will only print to AirPrint-enabled printers. You can still print to a Google Cloud Print-enabled printer, but it’ll take a little extra effort. Read This Article → How to Combine Images into One PDF File on a Mac Say you’re applying for a job, and the hiring company wants signed documents sent to them, or imagine you want to add an addition on to your house and the contractor wants to see photos. How do you that easily on a Mac? Read This Article → How to Fix the Android Play Store When It Constantly Force Closes Nothing is quite as dreadful as seeing that fateful “Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped” message…every time you open the Store. Here’s what to do if the Play Store on your phone or tablet just won’t stay open. Read This Article → How to Replace 7-Zip’s Ugly Icons with Better-Looking Ones Normally, I wouldn’t mind too much that an app is ugly–especially one as mundane as a file archiver. But it’s not just 7-Zip’s in-app icons. It also changes your Windows icons for ZIP, 7Z, TGZ, and other archive file types to these horrific, blurry, pre-Vista-looking icons that permeate my hard drive. (See the screenshot above.) Read This Article → The Difference Between All of Philips’ Hue Light Bulbs It wasn’t so long ago that Philips introduced its Hue smart lighting system, and since then, the company has expanded its lineup to include quite an arrangement of light bulbs and light fixtures to choose from. 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