What You Need to Know About Vulkan, Which Promises Faster Games on Every Platform

Did You Know? The equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, and Kiribati. Geek Trivia Which Of These Video Games Delivers The Story Line As A Stage Play? Psychonauts → Guilty Party → Super Mario Bros. 3 → Bioshock → 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 Customize Your Xbox One’s Privacy Settings How to Hide Apps from Android’s App Drawer with Nova Launcher What You Need to Know About Vulkan, Which Promises Faster Games on Every Platform Is It Possible for Different People to Have the Same Public IP Address? 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Make Escher-style tessellations online This easy to use tessellation widget makes it dead simple to create cool tessellating patterns--a more or less perfect Friday afternoon time waster. [Boing Boing] How Much Data Would Make Your iPhone Heavier? Four Quadrillion Times Your Memory The efficiency of digital storage means you'd need to receive a lot of emails for information to drag you down. Here's how many. [Inverse] Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs A tiny modest flood control damn in a New York suburb hardly seems like something hackers would target, but that's exactly what happened. [The New Yorker] Google disables April Fool joke amid user fury after prank backfires Gmail Mic Drop caused more tears than laughter, thanks to users accidentally enabling the prank on serious emails – with some dire consequences [The Guardian] He Drew the Sun for 40 Years, But Now His Telescope Is Dying Just east of Los Angeles an aging astronomer spends his days quietly adding drawings to the largest catalog of solar sketches in the world. [Wired] How to Customize Your Xbox One’s Privacy Settings Microsoft is no stranger to controversy in the world of privacy, so it’s not too surprising that its flagship Xbox One console comes with such an extensive range of customizable privacy features. Users can configure dozens of settings, from how visible their gaming content is on Xbox Live down to whether a profile can connect to Live at all. Read This Article → How to Hide Apps from Android’s App Drawer with Nova Launcher Not every app deserves a spot in your app drawer. Maybe there are some built-in apps you don’t use, or a few you don’t want others to see. Here’s how to hide apps from your app drawer with Nova Launcher. Read This Article → What You Need to Know About Vulkan, Which Promises Faster Games on Every Platform Microsoft’s DirectX 12 and Apple’s Metal are next-generation graphics platforms. They provide lower-level access to graphics hardware, allowing game programmers to squeeze more performance out of the hardware. Vulkan is the cross-platform answer to Microsoft and Apple’s technologies. Read This Article → Is It Possible for Different People to Have the Same Public IP Address? For the most part, all of us are used to having a unique public IP address, but what do you do when that is actually not the case? What exactly is going on? With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps a confused reader solve an IP address mystery. Read This Article → The Most Common Philips Hue Problems, and How to Fix Them Philips Hue lights are great when they’re working properly, but sometimes it’s not all sunshine and roses. Here are some common issues that you might be coming across and how to fix them. Read This Article → How to Resize Images in Batches Using Preview in OS X OS X’s Preview is the little image viewer that keeps on giving. Preview is so feature-rich that there’s usually little reason to install another image viewer. It can even resize a large batch of images at once. Read This Article → How to Stop LinkedIn’s Annoying Emails for Good Like most social networks, LinkedIn loves to send you emails. While they can be a handy way to keep up with important things, for the most part these emails are just a way to get you to check in with the site more often. And if you leave the settings at their default, you’ll get a lot emails from them. Here’s how to stop them. Read This Article → How to Reduce Your iPhone’s Brightness Lower Than iOS Allows If you use your iPhone at night in a dark room, even the new Night Shift feature in iOS 9.3 can’t stop your screen from seemingly burning your eyes. Luckily, there is a way to reduce the brightness of the screen lower than iOS actually allows. Read This Article → How to Wipe Your Android Device and Restore It to Factory Settings There comes a time in every mobile user’s life when he or she needs to factory reset their device. Maybe you need to sell it, or maybe it’s just being wonky and you want to start from scratch. Thankfully, it only takes a few minutes to do. Read This Article → How to Control Your Nest Learning Thermostat with Alexa You can do a lot of things with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, and now, thanks to new smart home integration, you can control your Nest Learning Thermostat. 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