How to Skip the Wait and Upgrade to Android Nougat Now

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Four Excellent Android Nougat Improvements You May Not Know About Geek Comic Today's Tech Term BYOC In the context of I.T., BYOC (short for Bring Your Own Computer) refers to a trend where employees are allowed to bring their own personal computing devices to work to use in performing their job duties. 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. Why Airplane Tires Almost Never Have a Blowout ​With 500,000 pounds of Boeing 777 coming down hard, you'd think the tires would explode sometimes. [Popular Mechanics] A New Study Reveals Millennial Attitudes Are Making America's Vacation Time Problem Worse Generation Y has created an era of "work martyrdom" in the U.S., a new study reveals. [Travel + Leisure] Google to punish sites that use intrusive pop-over ads If ads interfere with the mobile experience, it'll spell bad news for the site. [ArsTechnica] How to Turn Your Windows PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot Windows can turn your PC into a wireless hotspot, allowing it to share its wired or wireless Internet connection with other wireless devices. But how you set it up that depends on what version of Windows you’re running. Here’s how it all works. Read This Article → How to Make Your 120Hz or 144Hz Monitor Use Its Advertised Refresh Rate So you’ve purchased a monitor that offers a 120Hz or 144Hz refresh rate and plugged it in–great! But don’t stop there. Your monitor may not actually run at its advertised refresh rate until you change some settings and sort out your hardware. Read This Article → How Do You Create Subfolders in the Windows "Send To" Menu? Being able to send files quickly and easily to their proper locations via the context menu can help streamline your work flow, but what do you do if you want to add custom subfolders to the mix? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to help a reader send his files on their way. Read This Article → The Different Types of Light Bulbs You Can Buy, and How to Choose Energy-efficient light bulbs are a great way to save money on your energy bill, not to mention keep your bulbs lasting longer. But there are multiple kinds of light bulbs out there, and multiple kinds that are energy efficient. Here’s what you should know about the different types of light bulbs and which ones are worth buying. Read This Article → How to Skip the Wait and Upgrade Your Nexus to Android Nougat Now Android Nougat is here, but it’s rolling out to Nexus devices slowly. If you still haven’t gotten the upgrade notification, here’s a little trick to upgrade sooner. Read This Article → How to Read and Respond to Android Notifications On Your Mac Smartphones have quickly become our personal hubs for all notifications, text messages, and other important things–but who wants to type on a tiny keyboard all the time? With this free Mac app you can see all your Android notifications on your Mac, and even respond to them right from the notification itself. Read This Article → 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 "Android N"), but today we're going to highlight a handful of features that you may not have already heard about. 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