How to Download Movies and TV Shows to Watch Them on an Airplane (or Anywhere Else Offline)

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How technology disrupted the truth Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism [The Guardian] Turn on 5G, turn off old landlines: FCC plans future of phone networks FCC votes open spectrum for 5G, let carriers discontinue legacy voice service. [ArsTechnica] How to See the This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower Look up into a dark sky in mid-August to see more than 150 meteors per hour [Scientific American] Why We Should Be a Little Paranoid About Hackers Messing With Robot Surgeons Just because something is unlikely, it doesn't mean we shouldn't be ready for it. [Motherboard] How to Get a Paragraph Count for a Specific Paragraph Style in a Word Document You can easily count paragraphs, as well as pages, words, characters, and lines, in a Word document. However, what if you want to know how many paragraphs of a specific style you have in your document? We'll show you a trick that allows you to easily get this number. Read This Article → What Is Samsung’s Game Launcher, and Should You Use It? It's been a long day and you've got some time to kill, so you grab your Samsung Galaxy S7 and fire up your favorite game. You're all set to crush the level that you've been stuck on for the last seven weeks—it's so close you can taste it. Then your bff decides to send a text that interrupts your game, which throws you off your mark. You lose again. Read This Article → How to Download Movies and TV Shows to Watch Them on an Airplane (or Anywhere Else Offline) Solid Internet connections aren’t available everywhere. If you want to watch streaming movies and TV shows on an airplane, on the subway, or somewhere out in the wilderness away from cellular towers, you can download them ahead of time. Read This Article → Why Is Windows Hibernating Instead of Fully Shutting Down? Windows’ hibernation setting can be a very useful “feature” when you need to quickly start your computer, but there are times when you want or need to completely shut down your operating system every time instead of just occasionally. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has a quick and easy solution to a frustrated reader’s problem. Read This Article → What You Can (and Can't) Do with Multiple Amazon Echos The Amazon Echo is a device that can quickly become the center point of your smarthome setup, but what if you live in a larger home where one Echo just won’t cut it? Here’s what you should know about bringing in a second, or even a third, Amazon Echo device into your house. Read This Article → How to Empty Trash for Only One Account on Apple Mail for OS X If you use Apple Mail on OS X, then you know that when you empty the trash, it normally purges all the deleted messages for all your accounts. If you only want to purge deleted messages from one account, however, there is another way. Read This Article → How to Sync OneNote 2016 Notebooks to Your OneDrive Account and Access them Anywhere The best note-taking programs, like Evernote, sync your notes to all your other devices, so you have them wherever you go. If you have some OneNote 2016notes that are stored locally on your computer, you can sync them to your other devices using OneDrive. Read This Article → How to Set an Ethernet Connection as Metered in Windows 8 and 10 Windows 8 and 10 both allow you to set certain types of connections as metered so that you can limit the amount of data Windows (and certain apps) can use without asking. You can use the regular Settings interface to set mobile and Wi-Fi connections as metered, but for some reason Windows assumes you won’t need to do this with wired Ethernet connections. If you use an ISP that has monthly data caps, you know better. The good news is that a quick Registry edit will fix you right up. Read This Article → How to Run Linux Commands From Outside the Bash Shell on Windows 10 Windows 10 includes an underlying “Windows Subsystem for Linux” to run Linux applications, but it’s only accessible via the Bash shell. However, there is a way to run Linux applications without first launching a Bash window. Read This Article → How to Unify Your PC and Android Phone for Seamless Notifications, Sharing, and More Sometimes you need to get stuff from your computer to your phone—pictures, files, links, text, etc. And most of the time, that's way more of a pain than it should be. If you're tired of uploading files to Dropbox or Drive, emailing links to yourself, or—worst of all—plugging your phone into your computer just to get your stuff from point A to B, stop. There's an easier way. In fact, we've got three easier ways. Let's get to it. 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