If You Want Android, Just Buy Google's Pixel Phone

Did You Know? The most common modern-day greeting in Korea is “annyeonghaseyo” (or: "안녕하세요") and translates literally as “Are you safe?” (or "Are you all right?")—although the exact origin of the phrasing is unknown, it is believed to have originated from older times when sickness posed a more immediate and significant threat. Geek Trivia There’s A Popular Literary Genre In Japan Where The Works Are Composed Using? German Typewriters → Bamboo Quills → Text Messages → Morse Code → Advertisement Dashlane - Never Forget Another Password Dashlane has a slick Web 2.0-type interface with a host of similar features--like syncing, password auditing, assisted automatic password changes, and alerts in case of security breaches. Dashlane has definitely led the pack in the good interface department Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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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. Tax Bill Calculator: Will Your Taxes Go Up or Down? Great interactive feature giving you a quick way to work out how the new tax bill might affect you. [The New York Times] Single Angry Star Wars fan wrecks The Last Jedi's Rotten Tomatoes score Good use of your time, dude. [Quartz] Google Maps's Moat: How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? In-depth look at how much more details Google Maps has than Apple Maps in small town America, with lots of animated GIFs comparing the two. [Justin O'Beirne] Ubuntu 17.10 Breaks the BIOS on Some Lenovo Laptops Oops. [ OMG! Ubuntu!] The Best Non-Mechanical Keyboards If you’re at all interested in computer accessories, you’ve no doubt noticed the trend towards mechanical keyboards. Their satisfying click-clack and deep customization options are appealing to a huge range of people. But that range doesn’t include everyone…and if you aren’t a fan of mechanical boards, you’re probably feeling a little left out. Read This Article → If You Want Android, Just Buy Google’s Pixel Phone Samsung may build the most popular Android phones on the market, but that doesn’t automatically mean they’re the best. In fact, there are a lot of reasons to ignore the Samsungs and LGs of the market and get your Android phone straight from the source: Google. Read This Article → How to “Untrust” a Computer on Your iPhone or iPad When you first plug your iPhone or iPad into a computer, you’ll be prompted to “trust” the computer on your device. This gives iTunes and other management tools on the computer the ability to access your photos, files, settings, contacts, and other data. Your iPhone or iPad remembers this decision and will automatically trust that computer in the future. Read This Article → Why Your Android Phone Isn’t Getting Operating System Updates and What You Can Do About It Back in the early days of Android, system updates were very random: they would roll out at different times, and often several times per year. Now, Google has taken a much more streamlined approach, releasing one major Android update per year and much smaller, security-focused updates once per month. Read This Article → How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms Twitter threads (aka tweetstorms), where someone posts a series of related Tweets one after the other, sit in a weird place: everyone claims to hate them, but lots of people post them anyway. Twitter has recently embraced the feature, integrating them into the platform and making them easier to do right. Here's how to use them. Read This Article → Despite Firefox Quantum’s Success, Mozilla Has Lost Its Way Mozilla was supposed to be different. It brands itself as a non-profit organization dedicated to making the web better, one that cares about user privacy and security. But after this week, I’m starting to wonder if Mozilla really cares about its users the way they claim. Read This Article → Advertisement Dashlane - Never Forget Another Password Dashlane has a slick Web 2.0-type interface with a host of similar features--like syncing, password auditing, assisted automatic password changes, and alerts in case of security breaches. Dashlane has definitely led the pack in the good interface department Click here to download