Five Excellent Android Nougat Improvements You May Not Know About

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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 Update Your Xbox One Controller’s Firmware Without an Xbox One What Is “Runtime Broker” and Why Is It Running on My PC? Four Excellent Android Nougat Improvements You May Not Know About The Best New Features in Android 7.0 “Nougat” How to Automatically Turn on a Porch Light When Motion Is Detected How to Add a Middle Click to Your Mac’s Trackpad How to Set Up Samsung’s “Night Clock” on Galaxy Edge Devices How to Insert the Current Month and Year in a Word Document That Automatically Updates How to Change the Windows 10 Lock Screen Timeout Tech Term Confusion: “Memory” Means RAM, Not Storage Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Bricked Bricked is the term used for a consumer electronic device that has been damaged or otherwise incapacitated to the point of unusability due to a hardware and/or software failure. 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. A First Peek at Russia's New Space Cargo Ship ​Roskosmos needs a new spacecraft if it's going to keep three cosmonauts on the International Space Station. Here's what it might look like. [Popular Mechanics] Your Air-Conditioned Office Could Be Hurting Your Productivity—Here's How to Fight Back While they lay out a pretty solid argument for why air conditioning might be overdone (and hurting our productivity in the office), we, for one, like being chilly when it's searing hot out. [Bloomberg] Dark Horse publishing new The Legend of Zelda art book in 2017 Art and Artifacts follows up where Hyrule Historia left off. Are you excited? We're excited. [Polygon] 'Great American Total Solar Eclipse' Just 1 Year Away Around this time next August, Americans will be in for a special eclipse treat. [Space.com] How to Update Your Xbox One Controller’s Firmware Without an Xbox One Microsoft regularly releases new firmware updates for its Xbox One controllers, and these updates fix various bugs. But, if you’re using an Xbox One controller with a PC, you won’t be automatically prompted to upgrade your controller’s firmware. Read This Article → What Is “Runtime Broker” and Why Is It Running on My PC? If you’re reading this article, then you probably spotted the Runtime Broker process in your Task Manager window and wondered what it was–and maybe even why it spikes CPU usage sometimes. We’ve got the answer for you. Read This Article → Four Excellent Android Nougat Improvements You May Not Know About Android 7.0 Nougat is another feature-refining build for the OS, with lots of little tweaks and optimizations throughout.  Google covered a lot of the big features when it announced Nougat (then called "Andorid N"), but today we're going to highlight a handful of features that you may not have already heard about. Read This Article → The Best New Features in Android 7.0 “Nougat” Android 7.0 Nougat is finally here, and Nexus users will start getting the updates very soon. Here are the coolest features in the latest version of Android. Read This Article → How to Automatically Turn on a Porch Light When Motion Is Detected If it’s dark out and someone comes to your door, you probably can’t see them unless your porch light is on. Furthermore, if a potential burglar approaches your front door, a motion light can help scare them away. Read This Article → How to Add a Middle Click to Your Mac’s Trackpad On basically every mouse, the scroll wheel can be clicked to perform what’s called a “middle click”, and it’s incredibly useful while browsing the web. You can middle-click any link to open it in the background, or middle-click any tab to close it. It’s one of those things that are hard to live without once you discover them. Read This Article → How to Set Up Samsung’s “Night Clock” on Galaxy Edge Devices At first blush, Samsung's Edge Display may seem a bit gimmicky—and initially, it kind of was. But the longer the company uses it in new devices, the more useful it gets. Some of the things it can do are subtle, while others are much more prominent. One of the more subtle, yet useful, features on the Edge Display is something Samsung calls "Night Clock." Read This Article → How to Insert the Current Month and Year in a Word Document That Automatically Updates You can easily add the current date and time to your Word documents, but what if you only want to add the month or month and year, but no date? It's easy to manually add a custom date field and we'll show you how. Read This Article → How to Change the Windows 10 Lock Screen Timeout By default, Windows 10’s lock screen times out and switches off your monitor after one minute. If you’d like it to stick around longer than that–say, if you have background picture you like looking at or you enjoy having Cortana handy–there’s a simple Registry hack that will add the setting to your power options. Read This Article → Tech Term Confusion: “Memory” Means RAM, Not Storage Some people say they have “a smartphone with 64 GB of memory”, but they don’t. Those people might have smartphones with 64 GB of disk space, or storage, but that’s different than memory. It’s time to clear up this tech term misconception. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Leadership for Dummies (Valued at $19.99) FREE for a limited time Whether you're a teacher, preacher, coach or project leader, this book will provide you with a solid foundation on which to build. Click here to download