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X-Post and Double-Post) refers to the practice of posting the same message or content to two or more online venues such as social media, blogs, forums, 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. Tech firms want to save the auto industry—and the connected car—from itself We crash test cars, but we don't crash test the code they run. [ArsTechnica] App Store 2.0 The App Store changed the way we buy software. Can Apple do it again? [The Verge] How Ancient Human-Like "Hobbits" Got So Small Our most recent ancestors shrank into homo floresiensis after a millennia of isolation. [Popular Science] Minecraft Education Edition Is Now Available Mojang's Education Edition of Minecraft, with extra features tailored for classroom and educational use, is now available for early access download. [Popular Science] How to Add Color to Inactive Title Bars in Windows 10 By default, programs’ title bars in Windows 10 are white. You can change the color of the active program window, but what about the title bars on inactive windows? No worries. There's an easy registry tweak to solve that. Read This Article → Customize the Heck Out of Your Galaxy Phone with Samsung’s Good Lock The Samsung Galaxy S7 is probably the best Android phone available right now, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There are things that can easily be added to improve not only the look of TouchWiz, but also the functionality. Good Lock, an app from Samsung, does just that, giving users a way to easily tweak the notification tray, quick settings panel, and recents menu–not to mention get a more stock Android-like appearance. Read This Article → How to Set Up the HTC Vive and Start Playing Games If you want to experience true virtual reality, with the ability to move around as you play, the HTC Vive is as good as it gets right now. Here’s everything you need to know about setting it up so you can get started playing. Read This Article → Should You Use the Windows 10 Insider Previews? By switching to Insider Preview builds of Windows 10, you’ll get the latest changes and features before other Windows users. However, you’ll also get new bugs. Here’s what running an Insider Preview is actually like. Read This Article → How to Check if Your PC Is Ready for the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive The Oculus Rift and Valve’s HTC Vive require some powerful PC gaming hardware. Not sure if your PC can handle it? Both Oculus and Valve provide tools that will quickly check if your PC is up to snuff. Read This Article → How to Add Third-Party Devices to SmartThings While SmartThings has its own lineup of sensors and devices, you can connect them with all sorts of third-party devices, giving you unified control from a single app. Read This Article → How to Stream Podcasts to Your Sonos Player If you’ve ever wanted to listen to podcasts on your Sonos speakers, then there are actually several ways to stream them, be it from the Internet, your computer, or from a mobile device such as a phone or tablet. Read This Article → How to Open Hidden System Folders with Windows’ Shell Command Many of the hidden system folders in Windows are identified in the Windows Registry along with a class ID (CLSID) key, special folder names, and the folders’ locations on your PC. Using those special folder names along with the Shell command means that even hidden folders buried deep in your file system are always just a few keystrokes away. Read This Article → How to Temporarily Save Your Browsing History in Chrome’s Incognito Mode Chrome’s Incognito Mode allows you to surf the web and search for stuff without your browsing history being tracked. However, what if you want to temporarily save your browsing history just for that incognito session, so you can go back to pages you just visited? There's a handy extension that allows you to do this. Read This Article → How to Simplify the Galaxy S7 for Your Tech-Unsavvy Relatives with “Easy Mode” Every tech-savvy geek knows how annoying it is to help their less savvy friends, relatives, or kids work their gadgets. Fortunately, Samsung built-in a way to simplify some of the Galaxy S7's primary apps with "Easy Mode." Here's how to enable it. Read This Article → How to Extend Windows 10’s 30-Day Limit for Rolling Back to Windows 7 or 8.1 After upgrading to Windows 10, you have 30 days–about a month–to roll back to Windows 7 or 8.1 if you so desire. After that, Windows takes the option away from you. But there’s a way to extend this time limit at the cost of some disk space. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Microsoft Office 2016 -- Free Reference Card Kit This Microsoft Office 2016 reference kits includes 5 individual reference cards providing shortcuts, tips, and tricks for the most popular office productivity suite in the world. Click here to download