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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The New MacBook Pros Mark the End of Upgradeable Apple Computers With the release of its new MacBook Pros, Apple has officially stopped selling the only one of its Macs that is user-upgradable, marking the beginning of a long-foreseen future in which its computers are disposable. [Motherboard] The future of America is driverless US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx on the inevitability of an America filled wit autonomous vehicles. [The Verge] Want to Know What Virtual Reality Might Become? Look to the Past. Nineteenth-century diversions could offer some clues about the medium's potential. [NYT] Free Shipping Is A Lie Free shipping is a top priority for online shoppers, but many merchants are struggling to keep up with the costs. [Fast Company] 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 → How to Forward Ports on Your Router Although modern routers handle most functions automatically, some applications will require you to manually forward a port to that application or device. Fortunately, it’s really simple to do if you know where to look. Read This Article → How to Use Emoji on the iPhone Emoji have been taking the texting world by storm for the last couple of years, but if you’re just now seeing the light, here’s how to use emoji on your iPhone to send your friends smiley faces and virtual kisses. Read This Article → How to Keep Your MacBook Awake While Closed When you close the lid of your MacBook, it goes to sleep. There’s no system setting you can tweak, and no command you can run, to change this. But there is a major exception to this rule, and another third party program that gives you control. Read This Article → How to Open an EPS Image File on Windows An EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) file is special type of image file containing a PostScript program. If you’ve stumbled upon one of these files,  you’ve probably noticed quickly that few programs can open it properly. So how can you view it? Read This Article → How to Stop Aero Shake from Minimizing Your Windows Aero Shake—a fun little feature that lets you grab a window by the title bar and shake it to minimize all other open windows—can sometimes get in the way. If you don’t like it, you can turn it off with a quick Registry or Group Policy edit. Read This Article → How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts in LibreOffice If you're using the free alternative to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, and you like using keyboard shortcuts, you can customize the shortcuts in each LibreOffice program and for all LibreOffice programs in general. Read This Article → The Best Weather Apps for Android Everyone has at least one weather app installed on their phone, but there are so many different ones out there. Finding the "best" one can be a bit difficult, so we've rounded up a couple of the best to help you decide. Read This Article → How to Remove Viruses and Malware on Your Windows PC Whether you saw a message saying a virus was detected, or your computer just seems slow and unreliable, you’ll want to scan for malware on your PC and remove any you find. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Scrum: Novice to Ninja (FREE eBook, $40 Value) Scrum is one of several techniques for managing product development organizations, lumped under the broad category of agile software development. Agile approaches are designed to support iterative, flexible, and sustainable methods for running a product engineering organization. Click here to download