How to Run Windows Programs from Windows 10's Bash Shell

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Its purpose is to verify the accuracy of the code and that it has been entered correctly. 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. How Cheat Codes Vanished from Video Games Once a staple of video games, cheat codes are now a bit of gaming nostalgia [Waypoint] Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen Sci-Fi authors envision moon hospitals, babies in space, and Proxima Centauri trips. [ArsTechnica] We've Hit Peak TV--It's impossible to keep up with all the new TV shows There were more original scripted series on US TV and online than ever before this year, according to research by FX Networks, the cable channel that coined the phrase "peak TV." [Quartz] Controversy Swirls around Latest Addition to Human Family Tree An astonishing trove of fossils has scientists, and the media, in a tizzy over our origins [Scientific American] How to Access Windows Remote Desktop Over the Internet By default, Windows Remote Desktop will only work on your local network. To access Remote Desktop over the Internet, you'll need to use a VPN or forward ports on your router. Read This Article → Automatially Give to Charity Every Time You Shop with AmazonSmile You shop on Amazon a lot, right? So why not make Amazon give to charity whenever you do? AmazonSmile is a simple and easy way to give a little money to a charity of your choice every time you buy something on Amazon. If you shop at smile.amazon.com (instead of www.amazon.com), Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of whatever you buy to your chosen charity. You pay nothing extra, so there’s no reason not to do it. Read This Article → How to Run Windows Programs from Windows 10’s Bash Shell In the Creators Update, Windows 10’s Bash shell now allows you to run Windows binaries and standard Command Prompt commands, right from Bash. You can run both Linux and Windows programs from the same Bash shell, or even incorporate Windows commands into a Bash script. Read This Article → How to Make the Amazon Echo Understand You Better Living in the future with an on-call voice assistant is great—except when she doesn’t understands your requests. Here are five simple things you can do to ensure that you spend more time enjoying Alexa and less time yelling at her for misunderstanding you. Read This Article → How to Customize 3D Touch Shortcuts on iPhone The Phone and FaceTime apps offer direct ways to customize the favorite contacts that appear. If you 3D touch either of these apps, you’ll see that four contacts are shown: Read This Article → How to Move Windows’ Temporary Folders to Another Drive If you’re trying to save space on your system drive—say, if you have a space-starved solid state drive—moving Windows’ temporary files to another hard drive makes sense. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Change the Size and Style of the Icons in LibreOffice The toolbars in LibreOffice provide quick access to various shortcuts, similar to the ribbon in Microsoft Office. But if you don’t love the icons, there are several different styles available, and you can change the size of the icons as well. Read This Article → How to Make Nova Launcher Look (and Function) Like the Pixel Launcher Google’s Pixel Launcher is a fantastic and clean home screen utility that everyone should be able to enjoy—the problem is, it’s a Pixel-exclusive feature. The good news is that you can actually set Nova Launcher up to look and function exactly like Pixel Launcher. And since it’s Nova, you can actually improve on Pixel Launcher’s functionality. I call that a win-win. Read This Article → Kindle vs. Paperwhite vs. Voyage vs. Oasis: Which Kindle Should You Buy? Amazon's Kindle lineup has expanded: there are now four different models, with different features at different price points. That means deciding which one you want is more difficult than ever. Let's look at what separates the four Kindles and how to work out which one is right for you. Read This Article → How to Optimize Your Android Phone’s Battery Life with Greenify At this point, smartphones are prolific. We use them for calls, text messages, social networking, photos, quick searches, streaming music, watching videos…the list goes on. But each thing you do drains your battery life, and some apps will even continue to drain your battery in the background when you aren’t using them. A free app called Greenify can fix that. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Simplified ($17 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Fully updated to cover Windows 10, this highly visual guide covers all the new features in addition to the basics, giving you a one-stop resource for complete Windows 10 mastery. Click here to download