| The Draper point, named after 19th century scientist John William Draper, is the approximate temperature (977 degrees Fahrenheit, 525 degrees Celsius) above which nearly all solid materials will begin to emit visible light (e.g. glow “red hot”) as a result of blackbody radiation.  | |
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| A Certificate Bandit is a hacker that has broken into a Certificate Authority (CA) company for the purpose of issuing fake certificates (digital credentials) to themselves and others in order to trick users’ browsers into believing that a website is safe and trustworthy to visit. | |
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| Facebook's Android and iPhone apps aren't great. The iPhone app has had bugs that cause it to drain battery in the background, and it could be using up to 20% of your battery on Android. What’s more, Facebook once even reportedly made its Android app crash on purpose once. | |
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| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is now available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and for the first time, "mods" are available to console gamers. | |
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| Many older (or cheaper) Windows laptops come with traditional mechanical hard drives—which these days, are pretty outdated and slow. Upgrading to a new, super fast solid state drive (or SSD) is the surest way to speed up an old computer. There’s one problem: moving your Windows installation can be tricky, especially since SSDs are often smaller than their traditional hard drive counterparts. | |
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| Windows 10 now signs you into Skype automatically, making you available so you’ll always receive messages and incoming calls. If you’d rather not be signed into Skype all the time, here’s how to sign out. | |
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| Buying a camera has never been more complicated: there are so many good options available, but picking between them can feel like a nightmare, especially if you’re just starting out with photography. It’s hard to buy a bad camera, but it's not always easy to buy the right camera for you. Here’s what you should be thinking about. | |
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| When your iPhone or iOS device has a flaky connection with Windows, it’s more than a little bit frustrating. With a little troubleshooting, however, you can banish the detected-but-not-identified error for good. | |
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| Do you browse Twitter with your mouse? Stop it! Twitter’s keyboard shortcuts make everything about using that website faster, and they’re easy to pick up. | |
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| By default, Windows stores your personal folders like Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos in C:\Users. If you want to move them to a secondary drive—say, if you have an SSD that can’t house all your files—you can do so with a simple menu option. | |
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| It’s a little thing, but having your TV turn on automatically when you turn on your Android TV box is nice. The thing is, not all Android TVs support this, which is just one of the many things that makes the NVIDIA SHIELD console the best Android TV box out there. | |
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| Copying a file with the Linux command line is easy. However, what if you want to copy the same file to several different locations? That's easy, too, and we'll show you how to do that with one command. | |
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| If you find that your old hard drive is bursting at the seams and you want to upgrade to a larger one, it’s really easy to do so without losing any of your data. | |
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| Windows automatically connects you to wireless networks you’ve connected to in the past. If you’re near multiple networks you’ve previously connected to, Windows uses a priority system to choose a Wi-Fi network. | |
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| The Raspberry Pi is a capable little microcomputer, but sometimes it needs a little nudge to muster enough power for what you need. Let’s dust off an old Pi and overclock it to better handle newer and more demanding applications. | |
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