Pokémon Go Has Full Access to Your Google Account. Here's How to Fix It

Did You Know? Stanley Kubrick did not skimp on details in his gripping film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The pivotal scene where Jack’s wife Wendy finds the massive pile of some 500 odd sheets of paper piled up beside his typewriter with “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” typed over and over, was not simply a few sheets of copy; the entire pile was all typed out by Kubrick’s secretary Margaret Warrington. Geek Trivia The First Station In The U.S. To Broadcast Digital TV Was Located In? Raleigh, North Carolina → Chicago, Illinois → Los Angeles, California → New York, New York → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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[ArsTechnica] Amazon's Mechanical Turkers are college-educated millennials making less than minimum wage Most Turkers make less than $5 an hour. Some Uber drivers earn $13.25 an hour on average. [Recode] Why true coincidences are hard to find In recent months, the same headlines seem to keep cropping up in our newsfeeds. The reasons why are simple. [BBC] How to Search Through Comments in Excel Comments in Excel are great for making notes about certain cells so you can keep track of your work. If you've added a lot of comments to your worksheets, it can get hard to remember where you put a specific note in a comment. Read This Article → How to Show the Control Panel and Recycle Bin in the Windows File Explorer Navigation Pane By default, the Windows File Explorer’s sidebar is divided into big categories like Quick Access, This PC, Network, and so on. But a quick setting change can make your navigation pane look a bit more like the traditional tree you’d see in an Open/Save As dialog box, with a few normally hidden folders–like the Control Panel and Recycle Bin–to the view as a bonus. Read This Article → How to Install Linux Software in Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shell Install Windows 10’s Ubuntu-based Bash shell and you’ll have a complete Ubuntu environment that lets you install and run the same applications you could run on an Ubuntu-based Linux system. Just like on Ubuntu, though, you’ll need the apt-get command to install and update software. Read This Article → How to Install the iOS 10 Beta on Your iPhone or iPad The pretty-darn-stable public beta release of iOS 10 is available now. If you want to take advantage of it, we’re here to show you how to update your iPhone, iPad, or other eligible iOS device and try it out. Read This Article → Pokémon Go Has Full Access to Your Google Account. Here’s How to Fix It [Updated] To say Pokémon GO is wildly popular would be a vast understatement. To say the app’s use of your Google Account is wildly insecure would also be a vast understatement. You should revoke its access to your account now. (But don’t worry, there’s a way to keep playing.) Read This Article → 10 Clever Uses for Samsung SmartThings Sensors SmartThings is a smarthome platform from Samsung that lets you set up sensors and other devices to automate certain tasks and secure your home. Here are some clever uses for those sensors that you may not have thought about. Read This Article → How to Show the Expanded Print and Save Dialogs in OS X by Default By default, OS X shows you small, simple Print and Save dialogs. You can click the arrow on the right to expand them for more options, or you can show the expanded dialogs by default with a simple command from the Terminal. Read This Article → How to Change the DNS Server on Your iOS Device The Domain Name System (DNS) translates the human-friendly domain names you type in–like “howtogeek.com”–into numerical IP addresses. The trouble is, your internet provider may not have the fastest or most reliable DNS servers available. You can easily configure your Wi-Fi connections in iOS to use better DNS servers, like those run by Google or OpenDNS. Here’s how to get it done. Read This Article → How to Increase the Size of Text and Icons on an iPhone You can make text larger and more readable on your iPhone or iPad, but you can also increase the size of the app icons, text labels, and user interface elements on your iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, or 6S Plus so it’s easier to use. Read This Article → How to Disable Haptic Feedback (or “Vibrate on Tap”) in Android When you tap certain items in Android, your phone will vibrate just a bit, giving you a little feedback. Sometimes, this is nice—getting that response is a nice acknowledgment that the thing you want to do is about to be done. But maybe you don't like that, which is okay. I support your decision even if I don't agree with it. The good news is that it's easy to disable touch feedback on pretty much all Android devices. Read This Article → How to Run Graphical Linux Desktop Applications from Windows 10’s Bash Shell Windows 10’s Bash shell doesn’t officially support graphical Linux desktop applications. Microsoft says this feature is designed only for developers who want to run Linux terminal utilities. But the underlying “Windows Subsystem for Linux” is more powerful than Microsoft lets on. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Security Intelligence: A Practitioner's Guide to Solving Enterprise Security Challenges (a $48.99 value!) Solve enterprise security challenges by translating security goals into sets of security variables. Click here to download