It's Time to Stop Buying Phones from OnePlus

Did You Know? The first Logitech trackball mouse was the TrackMan serial mouse in 1989—throughout the 1990s, Logitech released an updated trackball mouse on an almost yearly schedule before slowing production to just a few models from 2002 onward. Geek Trivia The Largest Recorded Family Tree In The World Belongs To The Descendants Of? Genghis Khan → Confucious → King David → Julius Caesar → Advertisement Download The Essentials of IT Security - 2018 Kit Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. The Essentials of IT Security – 2018 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Security related decisions.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles Is Now a Good Time to Buy a New NVIDIA or AMD Graphics Card? How to Mute Individual Browser Tabs in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox What Are the Photoshop Express, Fix, Mix, and Sketch Mobile Apps? It’s Time to Stop Buying Phones from OnePlus No Apple Store Nearby? Try an Apple Authorized Service Provider What Is Apple’s “Secure Enclave”, And How Does It Protect My iPhone or Mac? How to Disable the Lock Sound on an iPhone or iPad What’s the Difference Between Android One and Android Go? How to See Posts From Your Favorite Facebook Pages More Often How to Overclock Your Intel Processor and Speed Up Your PC Today's Review Geek Articles Apple’s $350, Siri-Powered HomePod Launches February 9th, Pre-Orders Start Friday Logitech MX Ergo Review: A Worthy Heir to Logitech’s Lengthy Trackball Mouse Lineage Nokia Is Disabling An Important Health Tracking Feature In Its Most Expensive Smart Scale Anker’s USB-C PowerCore Speed 20000 PD Is a Beastly, Future-Proof Portable Charger Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Closed Loop Reporting Closed Loop Reporting refers to the sharing of data and information between the marketing and sales departments so that productive leads (individuals that actually bought an item because of ads, email campaigns, etc.), prospective leads, and more can be identified to help determine which methods are working best and actually generating the most revenue versus those which are failing or performing poorly. 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. NASA's Parker Solar Probe will touch the sun We're sending a probe to the freaking sun! [The Washington Post] The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of 'Good Morning!' Texts Millions of Indians are getting online for the first time, and they're sending large "Good Morning" images to each other every morning. It's crashing people's phones. Amazon Go and the Future Amazon will not limit itself to running on store without cashiers: they will scale this until such stores are everywhere. [Stratechery by Ben Thompson] Demonized Smartphones Are Just Our Latest Technological Scapegoat Every generation thinks the latest technology is corrupting the youth. Are smart phones any different? [Wired] Is Now a Good Time to Buy a New NVIDIA or AMD Graphics Card? A few years ago, people were predicting the death of PC gaming as we know it. Those people are feasting on an abundance of humble pie, as PC games remain a cornerstone of the industry: digital delivery gives us more variety than ever before, and even the relatively niche market of performance gaming hardware has never been more healthy. But even the most humble of PC gamers needs a graphics card (well, sort of), and it’s one of the most frequent upgrades gamers make. But is now a good time to buy one? Read This Article → How to Mute Individual Browser Tabs in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox Modern desktop web browsers—Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari—all allow you to mute individual browser tabs in just a few clicks. Even Microsoft Edge allows you to mute browser tabs, although Microsoft could make this a lot easier. Read This Article → What Are the Photoshop Express, Fix, Mix, and Sketch Mobile Apps? Adobe's approach to mobile apps seems to be "The More, The Better". Right now, there are five Photoshop branded apps available for iOS and Android. Read This Article → It’s Time to Stop Buying Phones from OnePlus OnePlus hasn’t been making Android phones for a very long time, but over its four years in existence it has made numerous screw ups. This all finally led up to last week’s massive credit card breach. It’s time we stop trusting a company with such clearly low standards. Read This Article → No Apple Store Nearby? Try an Apple Authorized Service Provider Apple Stores aren’t the only place where you can buy Apple products and get them serviced. There are tons of other stores that also offer a similar experience, which is great for those who live nowhere near an Apple Store. Read This Article → What Is Apple’s “Secure Enclave”, And How Does It Protect My iPhone or Mac? iPhones and Macs with Touch ID or Face ID use a separate processor to handle your biometric information. It’s called the Secure Enclave, it’s basically an entire computer unto itself, and it offers a variety of security features. Read This Article → How to Disable the Lock Sound on an iPhone or iPad By default, Apple’s iPhones and iPads make a sound when you turn their displays off (aka when you “lock” them). You can disable this sound entirely and never hear it again, or just silence your phone if you’d rather not hear it in certain situations. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between Android One and Android Go? In 2014, Google announced a lineup of low-cost, low-spec phones called Android One. In 2017, they announced Android Go, specifically designed for low-cost, low-spec phones. So…what’s the difference? Read This Article → How to See Posts From Your Favorite Facebook Pages More Often Facebook's News Feed algorithm is a bit of a black box. It monitors dozens of signals and (supposedly) delivers the content you want to see. Unfortunately, it rarely works like that. Read This Article → How to Overclock Your Intel Processor and Speed Up Your PC Your computer is fast. Unbelievably fast, at least compared to the PC you had ten or twenty years ago. But it could always be a little bit faster. If that statement stirs a bit of tech-flavored longing in your soul, you might want to look into overclocking your processor. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Essentials of IT Security - 2018 Kit Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. The Essentials of IT Security – 2018 Kit brings together the latest information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Security related decisions.Click here to download