| Studded or spiked dog collars derive their design from “wolf collars”, collars with large metal spikes designed to protect livestock guardian dogs from wolf attacks.  | |
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| Data Lineage refers to the life cycle of data and includes its origins, movements, what has been done with it, how much it has been used, how it has been transformed, any splits or converges that have occurred, etc. | |
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| 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 Founder of Atari Wants You to Embrace Our Robotic Future
In Nolan Bushnell's future, a drone delivers his breakfast, automated cars chauffeur him to his next destination, and plants spliced with jellyfish DNA illuminate his world. [Motherboard] - Eastern US isn't ready for creatures fleeing heat
Extension open land and little development in the Western US afford a animals a lot of room to move in response to temperature changes, the Eastern US, on the other hand, is a bit more congested. [Futurity] - 6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, a new, depressing study says
The majority of links shared by social media are liked, shared, and otherwise interacted with, with the majority of people never clicking on the link before doing so. [The Washington Post] - The strategy behind Apple's (AAPL) lackluster iPhone SE is paying off
Apple's bid to capture the lower end smartphone market by offering a $399 smartphone seems to be paying off. [Quartz] | |
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| You sit down at your computer with the best intentions of being productive. Several hours later, you've checked your email, read your RSS feeds, posted your status to Facebook, and tried to find the guy you think wrote "The Phantom loves you" in your junior high school yearbook. | |
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| Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass app allows you to launch games, browse TV listings, and control apps on your Xbox One. You can even use it to stream live TV from your Xbox One to your phone. It’s available for Android phones, iPhones, Windows 10 and 8, and even Windows phones. | |
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| You're sitting at your PC and you receive a text message, so you pick up your phone, unlock it, read the message, and type one back using the tiny touch screen keyboard. Why not use your PC instead? If you're already sitting at your computer, you can easily take advantage of your computer's keyboard to send and receive text messages. | |
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| Most of us use the Start Menu to shut our Windows system down, but is it possible to cause damage if you choose to use the Command Line instead? Are there any particular commands that could cause damage while others do not? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a worried reader’s question. | |
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| If you have a sensor or device connected to your SmartThings setup, but you no longer want it, it’s actually really easy to disconnect from your system. | |
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| Today we bring you a neat little trick: You can set a moving screensaver as your desktop wallpaper on OS X. All it requires is a single Terminal command and a few seconds of time. | |
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| Your iPhone keeps a history of recent calls you’ve made and received. For the most part, this list is pretty handy. If you favor privacy, though, it’s easy enough to delete individual calls from your iPhone’s call history or even clear the whole recent calls list at once. Here’s how to do it. | |
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| Cookies are small files that websites put on your computer to store small bits of information. A cookie can keep you logged into a website by writing ID information to a cookie file. Cookies can also be used to store the items in your shopping cart. | |
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| Android allows apps you to subscribe to apps and services, including Google’s own Google Play Music, through Google Play. If you subscribe to an app, Google will automatically bill your saved payment method until you cancel the subscription. | |
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| If you’ve ever tried to do anything advanced on your Android phone, you’ve likely heard (or read) the term “USB Debugging.” This is a commonly-used option that’s tucked away neatly under Android’s Developer Options menu, but it’s still something that many users enable without giving it a second thought–and without knowing what it really does. | |
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