What Is Microsoft Azure, Anyway?

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[The New York Times] Nintendo's Switch is the fastest-selling US console ever Remember when everyone was saying Nintendo should stop making hardware and become a software only company? Yeah, about that... [Engadget] How to Manually Set Your Location in Google Chrome Phones get all the fun toys. Thanks to built-in GPS, network triangulation, and other goodies, it’s possible for them to use a more-or-less exact location for apps and website tools. Read This Article → How to Play Multiplayer Party Games on Your Chromecast So you have a Chromecast. Did you know that you can do more than just stream movies, music, and videos with it?  You can also play simple games that were actually designed for use on the Chromecast. We’re not talking about any AAA titles here, but there are definitely some fun little multiplayer games for when you have a group of people together. Read This Article → How to Use the Foreground and Background to Create Stronger Photos Photography can be very technical, especially in the digital age. But photography is, at it's core, art. You can take a technically perfect photo that's utterly boring and a technically imperfect photo that's a lot more interesting. Read This Article → What Is Microsoft Azure, Anyway? If you’ve followed Microsoft news, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure. This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google. Read This Article → How to Disable Motion Detection on the Nest Guard By default, the Nest Guard (which acts as the main keypad for the Nest Secure security system) doubles as a motion sensor, and will sound the alarm if it detects motion. However, if you would rather just have it act as the keypad and nothing else, here’s how to disable the motion detection. Read This Article → What Is configd, and Why Is It Running On My Mac? You’re browsing the processes on your Mac using Activity Monitor when you notice something you don’t recognize: configd. What is this, and should you be worried? Read This Article → How to Fix a Stuck or Repeating Key on Your Mechanical Keyboard Mechanical keyboards are great! But they’re also more complex than conventional keyboards. While they’re less likely to fail entirely, all those individual components mean you’re likely to have issues with certain switches—one for each key, somewhere between 60 and 110 of them, depending on the size of your keyboard. Read This Article → How to Block Inappropriate Websites Using Google Wifi There are a lot of “bad” websites on the internet—you know, things you wouldn’t really want your kids to look at. The problem is, it’s hard to constantly monitor what kids are doing online. The good news is that you can easily block inappropriate websites using Google Wifi. Read This Article → How to Remove Apple Music from the iPhone’s Music App Apple Music is heavily integrated into your iPhone's Music app. This is great if you're a subscriber, but the constant prompts and reminders to join get pretty tiresome if you're not. The good news is you can remove Apple Music from the Music app. This will make it much more like the old Music app. Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download