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Did You Know? While filming the scenes set on Endor in the heavily forested Pacific Northwest of the United States for the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, Peter Mayhew–the actor who played Chewbacca–was required to be escorted by a crew of assistants wearing brightly-colored safety vests at all times while costumed in order to prevent hunters from mistaking him for the legendary cryptid Big Foot. Geek Trivia The Gender Of Alligators Is Determined By? Time Of Year → Egg Temperature → Lunar Cycles → Their Mother's Diet → Advertisement Download Learning Network Forensics ($40 Value) FREE For a Limited Time In this new age of connected networks, there is network crime. Network forensics is the brave new frontier of digital investigation and information security professionals to extend their abilities to catch miscreants on the network. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Add Descriptions to Safari Bookmarks How to Change the Default Quiet Hours in Windows 10 How to Automatically Fill Sequential Data into Excel with the Fill Handle How Crop and Edit Photos on the iPhone or iPad The Complete Guide to Improving Android Battery Life Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Spin-Up Spin-Up refers to the process of a hard disk drive or an optical disk drive speeding up to the necessary operational speed in order to write and/or read data as needed. 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. We May Have Found a Way to Cheat the Second Law of Thermodynamics Physicists created a new quantum theorem for entropy, and included is a possible exception. [Popular Mechanics] Farmers Create Elaborate Corn Mazes To Bring In Cash With elaborate planning, ample space, and the aid of GPS units, farmers are crafting elaborate and imaginative corn mazes across America. [NPR] The Dark Web Isn't All Dark Despite its reputation for illegal activity, much of what goes on underneath the surface of the internet is legit. [The Atlantic] Why Robots Need to Feel Pain As robots become more sophisticated and interactive, should they also be programmed to experience pain to prevent injuries to themselves or others, and if so, to what extent? [Motherboard] How to Disable the Fill Handle in Excel If you enter a lot of sequential values in your Excel worksheets, the Fill Handle can help you save time by automatically filling cells with incremented values. What if you find the fill handle doesn't work? Read This Article → The Amazon Echo Is What Makes Smarthome Worthwhile The Amazon Echo and smarthome are a match made in heaven. Alone, both sets of products are fairly useless—but together, they are awesome. Read This Article → How to Change the Default Control Panel View in Windows By default, the Windows Control Panel defaults to the last view you used—Category, Large Icons, or Small Icons. If you prefer, you can make it always open to a particular view using a quick Registry or Group Policy hack. Read This Article → Amazon Prime Is More than Free Shipping: Here Are All of Its Extra Features Millions of people have an Amazon Prime subscription for one reason: you can get just about anything shipped to your house in two days, with no extra shipping fees. But Amazon Prime comes with a ton of other features that you may not know about. Here are all the ways you can maximize the value of your Prime membership. Read This Article → Why Is the Size of My Email Larger Than Its Attached Files? If you are using a locally installed mail client, you may have noticed that the size of an email seems to be a bit larger than the files you have attached to it. Why is that and is it a cause for concern? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Set Up the Eero Home Wi-Fi System If your house has Wi-Fi dead zones and weak spots, it may be time to ditch the old-school router setup and go with a mesh newtork like the Eero Home Wi-Fi System. Eero’s multiple router setup can provide strong Wi-Fi signals to every part of your house, and is easy to set up–no complex extenders, secondary networks, or other confusing steps. Here’s how to get Eero up and running and banish weak Wi-Fi signals for good. Read This Article → Why Do Mac Apps Stay Open When I Hit The Red X Button? You closed the only Safari window that’s open, but on the dock you see the browser is still running. Are you going nuts? Read This Article → How to Add Descriptions to Safari Bookmarks If you’ve been browsing the Internet for a while, you probably have accumulated an impressive number of bookmarks. The problem is, you might have forgotten why you saved them in the first place. Read This Article → How to Change the Default Quiet Hours in Windows 10 Have you ever wondered why you can only turn Quiet Hours on or off in Windows 10, but not set the actual hours you want? We have, too. But with a little Registry or Group Policy hack, it turns out you can. Read This Article → How to Automatically Fill Sequential Data into Excel with the Fill Handle The Fill Handle in Excel allows you to automatically fill in a list of data (numbers or text) in a row or column simply by dragging the handle. This can save you a lot of time when entering sequential data in large worksheets and make you more productive. Read This Article → How Crop and Edit Photos on the iPhone or iPad Editing photos on your iPhone or iPad is really easy. The Photos app on iOS packs a lot of features into it, including the ability to crop, adjust the color, make one-touch adjustments, and more. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Improving Android Battery Life Once upon a time, you had to really keep an eye on your Android phone to make sure the battery wasn’t being depleted immaturely. Manually toggling connections, constantly adjusting brightness, and the like are basically all things of the past now—but there are still things you can do to maximize your handset’s battery life. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Learning Network Forensics ($40 Value) FREE For a Limited Time In this new age of connected networks, there is network crime. 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